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2208.—What Killed Jesus?

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA · Sep 4, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 36.

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2208.—What Killed Jesus?

Did what the soldiers did to Christ kill Him? T. J. R.
What they did to Him would have resulted in His death. Acts 2:23; 3:13-15. But Jesus would have lived much longer in the natural course of events. The death by crucifixion was cruel but lingering. This is why the legs of the malefactors were broken. Pilate marveled that Jesus died so soon. Mark 15:44. What hastened His death?—He died of a broken heart. "He poured out His soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors." Isa. 53:12. He gave His own life, yet to all intents and purposes was killed by the Roman soldiers as guilty of sedition.