| Depictions are just art. You should never take them as 100% accurate. Many depictions of Jesus show Him as having blonde hair and blue eyes, but we know that's not true either. I'm sure the Muslims would have the same problem if they allowed depictions of Mohammed. The fact of the matter is that the accounts of the crucifixion and what we know from historical sources on crucifixion is that the soldiers made sure the people were dead. Sometimes that meant sticking a spear through the side. Sometimes that meant breaking the person's legs so that they would suffocate as they were no longer able to support their own weight. John says that blood and water actually came out of Christ's side when He was pierced with the spear, so it was hardly a scrape. Crucifixion was meant to be a slow, painful, and humiliating death, but Roman soldiers expedited it if they had to.
Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. -- Song 8:6 |