Musing On Good Friday I Got To Thinking...

[sandyRoe]

...about the legionnaire who speared Jesus as he hung on the cross.
I like to think that this act was an attempt to administer a merciful coup de Grace rather than a piece of gratuitous violence.
Any thoughts?

[perseverer]

I have to hope your 19.19 post was tongue in cheek...

[ynnafymmi]

No,p,it wasnt.Some Biblical scholars did some research on the Star of Bethlehem and discovered that it befell approximately between 10BC and 8BC.It was widely thought that Jesus was born circa 6BC.What i stated was the truth.Jesus Christ was born 6 years BC.(Before Christ).

[Atheist]

Nobody knows if there was a Jesus crucified at that time and nobody knows what that time would have been. I hope no-one here is serious about what the details might be.

[david small]

The spear of destiny. Sought by Hitler, some say. I think the legionnaire was instructed to administer a non lethal wound to aid and abet Jesus’s escape and exile to foreign lands.

[Togo]

Shouldn't this thread be in Religion and Spirituality?

[Atheist]

I expect it was routine stabbing to keep the whole business from going on too long and to spare the poor beggar unnecessary suffering.
Most things that happen are not too difficult to explain, just the daily stuff of life and death.

[ynnafymmi]

@19.48.Im not sure Togo.sandy is either poring over ancient ecclesiastical manuscripts or ancient apocryphal writings or he has went to bed to watch the football.My guess is he has went to bed to watch the football.

[naomi24]

David at 19.46. Astute and, in my opinion, probably right. There is - again in my opinion - a very different story to be had if only people would examine the ‘evidence. Suffice to say I suspect money changed hands.

[perseverer]

What, a 2000 year old conspiracy theory?

[douglas9401]

Maybe Cecil Frances Humphries/Alexander said it best for believers.

[perseverer]

Ok Douglas, I took the bait and Googled, the writer of All Things Bright and Beautiful, Once in Royal David's City.

[douglas9401]

And There Is A Green Hill Far Away, perseverer.

No bait as such, just information.

[perseverer]

..... which is of course the most relevant to this thread, if anyone else is still reading it.

[jno]

that's the usual interpretation, I've always been told. In the days when "hanging" just meant leaving you there till you strangled, kind friends would sometimes pull the victim's legs to hasten the process.