Helen Bond

I know, it's horrendous.

I mean, because obviously if your legs are broken, then that's going to put, you know, you're going to have to pull yourself up by your arms.

And once you can no longer do that, you're just going to die of suffocation.

So it would kill you quite quickly.

I know it's really horrible.

So, but in John's gospel, they don't break Jesus's legs because...

Because he's already dead.

And so what happens there is that a centurion sort of prods the side of him with a lance.

So maybe that happened.

I mean, John puts that to theological purposes.

He says blood and water came out and you've got this whole idea of rebirth, rebirth in the blood of Jesus.

But it's the kind of thing that guards might have done.

Yeah, a lot longer than you think in terms of organizing into a religion, because for at least the first century or so, followers of Jesus were still Jews.

But yeah, I mean, certainly quite soon after, followers start to see Jesus.

They have these appearances, visions.

And again, our earliest witness to this is St.

Paul in his letters.

And he preserves bits that sound like they're kind of earlier tradition.

And there's a

There's a tradition that Jesus rose on the third day and that he appeared to certain people, Peter the apostle, the 12, 500 of the Christians.