Yeshua was supposed to have his legs broken and then hang there for another day or two but clavius decided to kill him at once. It was a mercy killing and a great thing for him to do, but the movie never commented on it.
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I think breaking his legs was worse. Clavius saw Yeshua's mother crying, and to show mercy he ordered Yeshua to be killed with the spear. The guard told Yeshua that he is lucky to be killed with spear.
shareYeah i know it was a merciful thing to do, but my question is why wan't that emphasized in the movie. Like when clavius saw the risen christ at the disciple meeting, it would have been a nice touch to see yeshua thank clavius for what he did.
The Bible also tells of christ being killed with a spear after just a few hours on the cross, but the bible doesn't say anymore about it either.
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Only John's Gospel mentions the spear thrust. The other three just say that Jesus died on the cross. John went through several revisions, but the final editor refers to the "blood and water" that flowed from the wounds, saying that it was a true story, eyewitnessed presumably by the Gospel's original author. Apparently it also had a prophetic meaning in that the authors believed that the Hebrew Bible prophesied a dying Messiah who "could count every bone" and whose bones would not be broken. Re: the counting every bone, this is probably a reference to emaciation from starvation - the complainant is so thin that he can count all his bones showing through his skin. As to the uninjured state of the bones, the authors seemed to have a tradition that the soldiers thought Jesus had died, and therefore did not break his legs to hasten death (by asphyxiation, since in order to breathe, the victim needed the support of his legs). The spear thrust was an action designed as a "just to make sure" measure.
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