Death of a man? or a God?

The world shook, or maybe just the temple, on the death of Jesus Christ. This event is a historical death of either a prophet in Israel or the Son of God. Of course news cameras would be all over Calvary, interviewing Roman soldiers and the band of followers crying around the feet of the wooden cross. Many stricken Jews as well as skeptics followed the bleeding pulp of a man to the hill.

I would turn my attention on not just the death - - another man being crucified - - but on the condition of the man. Many people, like the two thieves to the right and left of him, were not nearly as limp and fragile as Jesus as he barely hung from the nails on his wrists. I would be investigating the whereabouts of Jesus’ last twenty four hours, trying to get his disciples, John or Peter to talk a little about the past events. I would show an interactive map online that showed the actual flogging that took place before the crucifixion as well as a map of where he was forced to walk with the Roman guards from his flogging to the hill.

My interactive segment of Jesus’ death would revolve around three things: the flogging beforehand, interviews from witnesses, disciples and maybe even Pontius Pilate, and the actual death itself.

The flogging segment would show how the flogging took place; an instructional video of what supposedly happened not only to Jesus but many other villians and miscreants. The video and interactive website would show that the upper and lower back and legs were flogged either by two soldiers or by one who alternated positions. As the Roman soldiers repeatedly struck the victim's back with full force, the iron balls would cause deep contusions and the leather thongs and sheep bones would cut into the skin and subcutaneous tissues.

The actual death itself was also a painful process and must to be shown as a video and/or interactive "game"; where the nails go and what it looks like. Tapered iron spikes from 5 to 7 inches long were nailed through Jesus’ wrists, not his palms, and into the cross. The spike was driven between the second and third metatarsal bones of the foot, in such a way that the weight of the body could be supported on the spike. Jesus’ cause of death, like that of other victims of crucifixion, was caused by many things, including the shock of extreme blood loss, exhaustion, suffocation, and heart failure. This segment would show video clips of the death, as well as the people’s insights about the event. Discussion boards and comment posts would open on the website as well.

Whether the viewer hated the sight of Jesus or worshiped the ground he walked on, his death had to be notified and covered in the media. No one can deny the powerful and often unexplainable miracles that took place during his time on Earth. He was known throughout Israel and soon his teaching spread nationally, now referred to as Christianity.