why the romans broke the legs of thieves that were crucifixed besides Jesus?
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To understand that, you have to understand more about crucifixtion.  The nails are through the hands and feet.  In order to breathe, the person being crucified has to push up against the nail in their feet. That hurts, but can still take a while for them to die. When breaking the legs, it just speeds up the process because then they have to push up against the broken legs as well to breathe.
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peter was upside down on the cross. and it was in rome.\nthe word babylon is your past.and it doesn't say who was killed first peter or paul.
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um...when could Jesus fly? \nand if by X, you mean cross, the nails probably went beside the bones.
423657
Yeah that was cool. Also I liked when the Romans crucified everyone. stuck them on crosses along the roads.
516970
Ive heard this before, that Jesus may have been in a coma and it was all a onspiracy and thats why He was taken down from the cross immediatly and His legs were not broken but I say you just gotta have faith, you just gotta beleive He died for our sins.
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Jesus Christ married his favourite prostitute and left descendants who are alive and well and working as pizza delivery drivers in downtown Manhatten under secret identities. The crucifixion was a fake, the Holy Grail is being used as a sauce-boat in the North British Hotel near the Rosslyn Chapel, and anyone who can figure out antediluvian Greek puns can work out the truth from a series of ancient monuments, tablecloth labels and car registration numbers. \n\nI could tell you their names but then I'd have to kill you.
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Those weren't "real" Christians.  The "real" Christians spoke up and put a stop to it.\n\n"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people do nothing."
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that's what happens when the Romans take and change a religion. but with out them it would have died out and we wouldn't have Christmas's or Easter or any of that as they are really old roman pagan holidays that were at first banned, then reworked by the new Cristian religion.
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Because most who support them are secretly not Christians, shhhh it our secret. Many of them would crucify Jesus again if they had the chance.
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Here's the definition, hope this helps. [=\n\nCrucifixion is an ancient method of execution, where the victim was tied or nailed to a large wooden cross and left to hang there until dead. It is widely considered a not uncommon but extremely dishonorable and excruciating form of judicial execution in the Roman Empire, though similar methods were employed in other ancient cultures. Crucifixion has special significance in Christianity, which holds that Jesus was crucified but later resurrected. Because of this the Christian cross or crucifix has become the symbol of Christianity.\n\nCrucifixion was used by the Romans until about 313 AD, when Christianity became the dominant faith in Rome. However, it has been used in various places in modern times.
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Based on the books in the New Testament, the Jews asked Pilate to release Barabbas, a convicted murderer, (as was the custom for the Roman guard to release any prisoner once a year upon the request of the people) and crucify Jesus Christ. The Gospels state that the Pharisees saw Jesus Christ as a threat to the established religious order as he equated himself with God and rebuked the religious hierarchy and piety of the Jews as displeasing to God, and since he had such a large following of people. So in essence, the New Testament states that the Jewish Religious order plotted against Jesus (hence bribing Judas for a bag of silver to bring Jesus to them). There were obviously Jewish people who did worship Jesus as the Son of God (his disciples, Mary Magdalene, his own mother, etc.) and therefore it is unfair to state that the Bible blames all Jews for the death of Jesus. But Biblical History dictates that it was Jews (meaning the Pharisees and other enemies of Jesus) who conspired to bring about Jesus' death and requested that he be crucified. \n\nHow accurate all of this is historically is almost impossible to verify as almost all evidence is taken from old manuscripts written by the early Christians. Just like any historical story, you need to look at it critically but not dismiss it just because it can't be proven.
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You should continue reading the book. But I thought your question was sincere. You are saying that the martyrs were twisted and un-enlightened. That is your opinion.\nThe same people that killed the Martyrs were saying "Where is your God to save you". They said that to Jesus too. \nThe Martyrs weren't necessarily "willing" to be killed. But they were very very aware that they would be with the Lord in heaven. \nMartyrdom was a way to proove how strongly they believed.\nIn the Roman Empire everyone was pressured to worship the Ceasar. Nobody really believed he was a god, but they all went along with that to avoid getting killed. How much more convincing would it be that Jesus is real, and that what the Christians believed is real if they were willing to die for what they believe in?\nIf they weren't willing to die, then Christianity was just like any other fad religion that was happening. At that time in history it was crucial that Christians show the importance of what they believe. That's why Paul was willing to appeal to Ceasar in Rome knowing that he would be killed by Caeser. He had an opportunity to escape, but he felt his whole purpose in appealing was to see Nero at any cost. He was beheaded. How strong of a message is that that someone is willing to die for it?\nIf they didn't really believe, they wouldn'd die for it.  \nAnd to the Christians death meant nothing, because they knew that they would be ressurected. You are seeing the picture from your own world view. God doesn't see it that way. He has a plan that has to do with eternity, not our short lived lives. We only live just a short time compared to eternity. Which is more important? Eternity, or just a number of years which are uncertain?\nWhy would God need to save them? He already did save them.
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Interesting fact.\n\nPeople who were martyred back in the days of early Christianity were often killed by being nailed to a cross and then the cross was turned upside down.   When one is martyred (like Jesus) on a right-side-up cross then you die by suffocation.  (Your body has to hold itself up in order to maintain airflow to your lungs and eventually your muscles get too worn out.)  However on the upside-down cross you can't suffocate so the death is much slower and more painful as you die through starvation.
361983
jesus died on the cross with a criminal on either side of him. check the bible! x
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Finding strength to serve God, gives strength to others.  Paul used to kill Christians left and right.  But because he converted to Christianity, he witnessed to others about his past and became motivation for Christians to give up their evil ways...He also gave strength to those who weren't even Christians to convert to Christianity, because they figured that if God could forgive a man like Paul, certainly they could be forgiven...and just maybe, their lives would make sense...
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Ive heard of christians that convert people at gunpoint. in my opinion thats a true christian (TM)  they have done that since Roman times and they will never stop being that way. the Mafia came from Rome and so did christianity. i dont think thats a coincidence.
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The previous poster is incorrect.  Christ was and is perfect.  If He weren't then He couldn't have died for anyone's sins, thus negating Christianity altogether.\n\nTo answer your question, let's get a few things straight.  Inciting a riot means that you're trying to get others to engage in violence along with you.  There's no evidence of that in this story.\n\nAlso, you imply that the Romans had set up shops in the Temple.  There's no reason to believe that.  It's much more likely that these were Jewish merchants selling to Jews.  Therefore there would be no central authority to negotiate with.\n\nThere is such a thing as righteous anger.  Christ entered the temple and saw how it had been so cheapened that commerce was going on within its walls, dishonoring God.  He became appropriately angry and wouldn't tolerate it for a moment longer.  The Temple was a place to worship God, not profit on His name.\n\nI don't think it's at all comparable to the suicide bombers and such you see in the Middle East.  Jesus didn't harm anybody physically.  His anger was directly aimed at those who were dishonoring God.  He wasn't trying to create terror, He was forcefully demonstrating how objectionable this practice was to God.\n\nPeace doesn't mean passively accepting an unacceptable situation.