How long did it take Jesus to die on the cross?

Answer 1

Crucifixion was reserved for the worst criminals in the Roman Empire. Usually the victims were strapped to the patibulum (The horizontal piece) and were made to walk to the execution site. On the way the victim would be humiliated and flogged.
Once at the excecution site the patibulum would be fastened to a vertical post (Stipes), which was part of a large framework. The person was then left to die. As their legs weakened their bodies would lower and it would become more difficult to expell the air from their lungs and so they suffocated.
In the more resistant of people crucifraction was performed. A spear was taken and placed between the victims legs and they were prised apart until they broke. This would then stop the victim from raising themselves up to breath easier.
It would take anything up to 6-8 hours to die.
jesus of Nazareth was nailed to the Patibulum once he reached the execution site. The nail was thrust between the radius and ulna bones of the lower arm and severed the medial nerve causing excruciating pain.
Then he was raised onto the Stipes, the whole of his body weight being supported by the two nails. Then his feet were nailed through the bones of his ankles.
His death was quicker only 3-4 hours.

Answer 2

According to scripture, he was placed on the cross at what (on your clock) would have been 9:00 am, and the body was taken down after 3:00 pm. The Bible is not clear how long it was between his actual death and when the body was removed.

So it was at most 6 hours, and may have been less.

Answer 3

Read Mark 15, Luke 23, Matthew 27...
Jesus was crucified at about 9am and from 12 to 15:00 there was darkness upon the earth after witch He died. BUT MORE IMPORTANT NOW HE IS ALIVE!!!!! God Bless

Answer 4

Between 3-6 hours. It is wrong to think that he died on a cross though.....The Greek word rendered “cross” in many modern Bible versions (“torture stake” in NW) is stau‧ros′. In classical Greek, this word meant merely an upright stake, or pale. Later it also came to be used for an execution stake having a crosspiece. The Imperial Bible-Dictionary acknowledges this, saying: “The Greek word for cross, [stau‧ros′], properly signified a stake, an upright pole, or piece of paling, on which anything might be hung, or which might be used in impaling [fencing in] a piece of ground. . . . Even amongst the Romans the crux (from which our cross is derived) appears to have been originally an upright pole.”—Edited by P. Fairbairn (London, 1874), Vol. I, p. 376.

Was that the case in connection with the execution of God’s Son? It is noteworthy that the Bible also uses the word xy′lon to identify the device used. A Greek-English Lexicon, by Liddell and Scott, defines this as meaning: “Wood cut and ready for use, firewood, timber, etc. . . . piece of wood, log, beam, post . . . cudgel, club . . . stake on which criminals were impaled . . . of live wood, tree.” It also says “in NT, of the cross,” and cites Acts 5:30 and 10:39 as examples. (Oxford, 1968, pp. 1191, 1192) However, in those verses KJ, RS, JB, and Dy translate xy′lon as “tree.” (Compare this rendering with Galatians 3:13; Deuteronomy 21:22, 23.)

“The shape of the [two-beamed cross] had its origin in ancient Chaldea, and was used as the symbol of the god Tammuz (being in the shape of the mystic Tau, the initial of his name) in that country and in adjacent lands, including Egypt. By the middle of the 3rd cent. A.D. the churches had either departed from, or had travestied, certain doctrines of the Christian faith. In order to increase the prestige of the apostate ecclesiastical system pagans were received into the churches apart from regeneration by faith, and were permitted largely to retain their pagan signs and symbols. Hence the Tau or T, in its most frequent form, with the cross-piece lowered, was adopted to stand for the cross of Christ.”—An Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words (London, 1962), W. E. Vine, p. 256.

Answer 5

His Grace cannot lie (law) nor die (law). Law does both.
Grace neither tempts(laws), nor can be tempted(lawed).

The first "finished" the human race is One winner take all.
(check out the two mentions of "finished" in John 17 & 19)
(then see what James 1:15 says of "it is finished" in Jn19)

Do will of God precedes "receive the promise": Heb 10:36
The will of God is always the same in both the OT and NT:
Psalms 40:6; 51:16; Hosea 6:6; Matthew 9:13; 12:7; Heb 10.
Go learn what meaneth: "I will have mercy, and not sacrifice".
Hebrews 10 reveals it meaneth I will have grace, and not law.
Notice the "not" part is: not then, not now, not ever, with God.
God NEVER desired sacrifice for sin, nor took pleasure in it.

POINT: No law law = No sin and death = No dead end.

The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

Answer 6

About 3 hours.

Answer 7

about 3 hours

Answer 8

only a few hours appearently... normally it takes 36.

Now considering he got beat up before then you could reduce that.


but it does make it cleart that he could easily have been given a superficial wound from a sympathetic roman and kocked out with drugs ion a vinegar soaked sponge, taken down appearing to be dead only not dead.

Answer 9

Jesus' slow death seems to occur over three hours between the sixth hour and the ninth hour of his crucfixion.

Matthew 27:45-50

45From the SIXTH HOUR until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land.
46About the NINTH HOUR Jesus cried out in a loud voice [...] "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
47When some of those standing there heard this, they said, "He's calling Elijah."
48Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge. He filled it with wine vinegar, put it on a stick, and offered it to Jesus to drink.
49The rest said, "Now leave him alone. Let's see if Elijah comes to save him."
50And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.

Answer 10

There is debate about whether Jesus actually died on the cross at all so to fix a length of time is probably going to be very subjective.