“Use As Much Detail As You Can”: Crucifixion Week At My Christian School
Content warning: Graphic descriptions of crucifixion.
Each year around Easter week, Junior year Bible class at my Christian high school crescendoed in a week-long study on the death of Jesus, aptly named Crucifixion Week.
Read about the first semester of junior Bible class here:
One of the stated course objectives on the syllabus for the Biblical Theology class read: “Students will examine the plan and purpose of the Death of Christ,” so I shouldn’t have been surprised about the content.
But I was.
Over the course of a week, our teacher shared insanely graphic material of the physical injuries to the human body during a crucifixion. He lectured with somber gravitas about the bodily torment Jesus experienced, which began before he even got to the cross.
