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A Physician Analyzes the Crucifixion

And it was the third hour, when they crucified him. And the inscription of the charge against him read, "The King of the Jews."                                                                                           - Mark 15:25-26           A Physician Analyzes the Crucifixion A medical explanation of what Jesus endured on the day He died by Dr. C. Truman Davis Several years ago I became interested in the physical aspects of the passion, or suffering, of Jesus Christ when I read an account of the crucifixion in Jim Bishop's book, The Day Christ Died.  I suddenly realized that I had taken the crucifixion more or less for granted all these years - that I had grown callous to its horror by a too-easy familiarity with the grim details.  It finally occurred to me that, as a physician, I did not even know the actual immediate cause of Christ's death.  The gospel writers do
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