Medical opinion.....of the spear wound made on jesus?
out of curiosity, I like to know what does the water coming out from the wound supposed to signify
in medical terms and please explain.
2007-02-14 12:54:40 · 11 answers · asked by I want to delete my answers account 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Apparently, to make doubly sure of death, the legionnaire drove his lance between the ribs, upward through the pericardium and into the heart. John 19:34 states, "And immediately there came out blood and water." Thus there was an escape of watery fluid from the sac surrounding the heart and the blood of the interior of the heart. This is rather conclusive post-mortem evidence that Jesus died, not the usual crucifixion death by suffocation, but of heart failure due to shock and constriction of the heart by fluid in the pericardium.
The carbon dioxide in the blood could not be released due to lack of being able to exhale efficiently, so it caused serum to build up in the blood that was being pumped through the body. The pericardium (the sac surrounding the heart) filled with the serum and the blood, thus causing the heart failure.
2007-02-14 13:09:16 · answer #1 · answered by Nicole C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the heart is surrounded by the pericardium, which contains a watery fluid and a lance thrust would have extracted this fluid, which would look like water. The thrust would also have pierced the heart, drawing accumulated blood.
Problem: Even if Jesus didn't die of asphyxiation and even if He didn't die of congestive heart failure and even if He didn't die of hypovolemic shock and even if He didn't die from the internal hemorrhaging itself, He had a large, deep, open chest wound through at least one lung and probably the heart, with internal bleeding. This would have caused internal infection and in a few days He would have died of sepsis, i.e., infection. The Bible says Jesus appeared to hundreds over a period of forty days after the Cruc
2007-02-14 13:22:03 · answer #2 · answered by lakelover 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was spiritual not medical in significance... The wound was made to insure that the mortal body was dead...but the Water and The Blood are the symbols of Salvation... The covering of Christ's Blood allows the believer to come to God... the water symbolized Baptism.
2007-02-14 13:03:40 · answer #3 · answered by idahomike2 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was most likely plasma separated from exhausting, low blood count and infection. Humans are 85% +/- water, as Christ was tortured, became weaker physically and probably had a serious infection, in today's medical standard, one could ASSUME that the water that sprang from the wound inflicted by the lance was plasma. Of course this did occur 2040 years ago, and none us were physically there, so it's a blind leap of faith... you either do or don't and you're not right or wrong either way.
2007-02-14 13:02:05 · answer #4 · answered by Porterhouse 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
More than likely it was serous fluid, a clear yellowish fluid like plasma. This could occur if the circulatory system has shut down.
2007-02-14 13:20:11 · answer #5 · answered by dumb-blonde 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe when the heart doesn't work properly, then the body retains fluid... water.
2007-02-14 12:57:46 · answer #6 · answered by RB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It might not've actually been water, just appeared to be water.
Who knows what organs might've been punctured.
2007-02-14 12:58:22 · answer #7 · answered by Annie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mmmm need a doctor to examine the body.
2016-03-29 06:52:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
that he was dead - no circulation - it's how the executioners checked to see if someone was done - so to speak
2007-02-14 12:59:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
he was whipped so bad he didn't have much blood left.
2007-02-14 12:59:44 · answer #10 · answered by zee zee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋