Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 78
78 Christianity – A Journey from Facts to Fiction Testament presents, it says that blood and water rushed out. As far as the mention of water is concerned it should not be surprising for Jesus as to have developed pleurisy during the extremely exact- ing and punishing hours of trial that he spent upon the cross. Also, the stress of the Crucifixion could have resulted in exudates from the pleura to collect likes bags of water, which is medically termed as wet pleurisy. This condition, which is otherwise dangerous and painful, seems to have turned into an advantage for Jesus as because when his side was pierced the swollen pleura could easily have played the role of a cushion protecting the chest organs from being directly penetrated by the spear. Water mixed with blood rushed out because of an active heart. Another piece of evidence is as follows. According to the Bibli- cal account, after the body was handed over to Joseph of Arimat- hea, it was immediately removed to a secret place of burial, a sepulchre with enough room not only for Jesus as but also for two of his attendants to sit and take care of him: Then the disciples went back to their homes, but Mary as stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent down over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ as body had been (John 20:10–12). That is not all, we are informed in the New Testament that an ointment, which had been prepared in advance, was applied to Jesus’ as wounds (John 19:39–40). This ointment, prepared by the disciples of Jesus as , contained ingredients which have properties of healing wounds and subduing pain etc. Why was there all this fuss about going through the laborious exercise of collecting twelve rare ingredients to prepare an ointment at all? The prescription