Thank you, Lord, for enduring the scourging that I deserve.

Thank you, Lord, for taking the nails that should have been driven into my hands and feet.

Thank you, Lord, for paying the complete price for my sins. Thank you, Lord,

for dying that day that I might live forever and ever with you. How grateful I am for the rest

of my life.

The Bible provides simple facts about the final hours of Jesus' life, but historians couldn't suppress the gruesome details of Roman crucifixion.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall teaches from Matthew

Chapter 27 about the scourging, mockery, and unimaginable suffering that our Savior endured.

Drawing from historical records, Chuck meticulously describes the agonizing moments

when Jesus bore the sins of humanity. By doing so, we stand in reverence and

awe as we worship the one who purchased our forgiveness. Chuck titled today's sobering message,

Those Final Dreadful Hours.

The late biblical and Hebrew scholar, under whom I had the privilege of studying,

Meryliffe Unger, writes in his Bible dictionary that there are instances on record

of persons surviving for nine days before death came while hanging on a cross.

How simple the words appear in the text, they nailed him, and a little later later as he hung there as he hung there. As he hung there.

Throwing dice for his clothing, maybe they had three others that day that would be crucified.

He's just one in a group.

They sat around, someone put a sign over his head because those who were crucified,

there was a public display of the crime, in his case.

He was crucified in the eyes of the Romans for declaring to be

the king of Jews, a threat on the emperor. They sat around people shouting abuse, leading priests and teachers, mocking him, even the two revolutionaries on either side,

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