The Body Foretold

The narration

A king described a dying body so exactly it reads like an eyewitness account of a crucifixion he never saw. Psalm twenty-two. David wrote it in the first person, but he was describing someone else's death, not his own. Watch the body of the dying man: "I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint " Drained and every joint pulled loose, the way a body hangs when it's suspended by the arms. And: "I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me." He could count every bone, stretched and exposed, while onlookers stood and stared at him. David never saw a crucifixion. Rome would not make it its instrument for centuries. Yet the dying man of his song bears the marks of one written early. This is what Jesus bore to bring you home every wrenched joint, every cold stare, recorded centuries early so you'd know none of it was chance. He was crushed in your place.