What is the difference between a cross and a crucifixion?

Answer 1

The term crucifiction refers to using an instrument with a cross bar attached, that is, a cross, for execution.

The term impalement refers to the use of a single upright pole, with hands attached to the pole over the head using a single nail, and both feet attched to the pole also using a single nail.

There are several reasons that indicate that Jesus was implaled on a single upright pole, rather than a cross shaped instrument.

In the scriptues, the Hebrew and Greek words used to describe the instrument of Jesus' execution were stauros and xylon. Both words mean a single piece of wood or a pole. The word crux, meaning cross does not appear in the original texts. Latin translators decided to use the word crux when translating stauros and xylon several hundred years after Jesus died.

The Romans did not use crosses for execution, but in Jesus's day, they would use a single upright pole, and there is no indication that there was anything different about what Jesus was executed on.

Also, the use of a cross shaped instrument, with arms outstretched, is not medically sound. That particular method of execution relies on the person suffocating to death. In the Roman method of impalement, both hands were nailed to the pole above the head and both feet were nailed to the pole also with a single nail. When the pole was placed in the ground, the victim would be gasping for air as the airways were now restricted. To get a single breath, the victim would have to push themselves up with their legs to be able to take each breath. As their legs became fatigued and the wounds on their feet became too excrutiatingly painful to do this, they would no longer have the energy to be able to fight for a breath of air. Eventually they would suffocate to death. If any still were living toward the end of the day, the Roman soldier would come along and, using a heavy instrument, break the legs of the victim to speed up the suffocation of the victim.

If there was a cross bar, and the arms were outstretched, as many teach, the victim would be able to suspend their weight on the outstretched arms, and breath indefiinately. Even breaking the victim's legs, as the Romans would sometimes have to do, would not speed up the suffocation process.

JW's use the term impalement when referring to Jesus' execution rather than cucifiction, because it more accurately describes the method used to put Jesus to death.

Answer 2

A cross is the wooden structure on which people were crucified (put to death by nailing them to it by their hands and feet). Many churches and Christians display the empty cross as a symbol of remembrance both for Christ's suffering upon it, and of the resurrection.

A crucifix is a cross which has the image of the dying or dead Christ on it and is mostly used by the Catholic Church.

A crucifixion is the act of crucifying someone, usually used in reference to Christ's crucifixion near Jerusalem.

Answer 3

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