The Suffering was Necessary!!! Luke 23-24

Luke 24:25-26 (ESV Strong's)
25 And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?”

The Suffering was Necessary!!

In the preceding verses and chapters we have the story of the crucifixion of Christ.  Although Luke is a medical doctor, he says little about the actual crucifixion.   The other gospels focus on some of the specific details.  To say the least, the person who was crucified in the first-century Roman world would suffer great pain before they actually died.  Crucifixion is one of the most painful ways to die.   Hanging on a “cross” with nails through the bones of your hands and feet is suffering.   As the weight of your body began to succumb to gravity, your lungs would collapse and you would struggle to breath.   To get air you would have to push yourself up with your legs and pull yourself up with you arms.Yet, you legs and wrist had nails through them to secure you to the cross.   On top of all this pain, they pierce Jesus’ side with a spear and drove a ring of thrones around his head to mock His royalty.   The place of the crucifixion was filled with death.  The stench and the flies and they maggots would have made it their living room quarters.  The suffering was real and the suffering was long.   If the subject was still alive by pushing themselves up to breath they would come back and break their legs.   Jesus was already dead before this added suffering was administrated to Him.  No human being should have to suffer in this way.  Yet, Jesus HAD to suffer.   He explains it Himself, after He arose from the dead, to these to men on the road to Emmaus.  The above passage are the words of Jesus as two of His disciples inquired about what had just happened.  They were blind to the truth of the suffering.   Jesus opens up the scriptures and teaches them the truth of Jesus’ need to suffer.  He had to suffer and die so that He could rise from the dead and give us new life.   He HAD TO SUFFER that HE MIGHT BE GLORIFIED.   That is the Gospel Story!!!