Jesus Liked Working . . . by RandomK

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. . .with His hands.
He was a carpenter, after all.

DoodleBunnah Featured By Owner Feb 23, 2010 Digital Artist

im so glad He did it for us.....

dovefromheaven Featured By Owner Feb 22, 2010

well done! this is excellent

RandomK Featured By Owner Feb 25, 2010

Thanks so much friend!!

KcPengie11 Featured By Owner Feb 21, 2010

The flesh torn actually looks really good, representing somewhat to me how he had gotten 39 lashes with a bone whip. But actually, my pastor told me today that the nails of the cross werent actually in his hands, they were in his wrists, for if they were in his hands, the pressure from his whole body hanging, the skin on his hands would just rip through and well, you get the point: just a random fact for ya :3

RandomK Featured By Owner Feb 21, 2010

Yeah I've heard that argument before, and I've heard it both ways. I think it's irrelevant to our salvation anyway. (That is, we're still saved by his death regardless of how he was nailed to the cross)

Thanks for the compliment!!

KcPengie11 Featured By Owner Feb 21, 2010

Haha, your welcome.
But yeah, i mean, why would you get nailed by your hands? Your skin and hand muscle could not support all of your weight like that. Its like simple physics or something. like gravity. Anybody hung on the cross like He was was nailed like, right inbetween the two bones in the wrist, so that it couldnt break through the skin like it would the hand. Well, thats what the Pastor says.

RandomK Featured By Owner Feb 21, 2010

Well i've also heard that the hand was a more painful place to be nailed, and since the romans were into causing as much pain to their prisoners as possible, they would nail them in the hands and then use ropes to secure the arms so that they wouldn't fall.
Also, they usually used a support on the bottom of the cross, with the feet, so they they were nailed to the support, and that's where they would actually stand.
Discovery channel did a show on this once, and they said that if nails in his hands were the ONLY thing that were holding him to the cross, then yes, gravity would have ripped them out, but the mere fact that his feet were nailed to the cross too, took the pressure off of his hands to the point that he would have stayed.
But like i said, it's not really that important.

KcPengie11 Featured By Owner Feb 21, 2010

Haha, no, it really isnt important, is it?
But yeah, I was watching this movie on it, and they showed that the legs were slightly crossed and at a slight angle, so if you did happen to, say, 'rip, your hands, you wouldnt be able to stand anyway, and the way they were nailed, even if they were tied down they would have fallen, because if you were slightly slouched foreward it would put a great deal of pressure on the chest area, because your legs and feet wouldnt be holding any of it, so the victim would most likely suffocate, which would be the equivilant of the roman just sitting there watching the torture, watching whoever was on the cross suffocate to death.

chefhalfnote Featured By Owner Nov 18, 2009 Student General Artist

And to think that He could have called 10,000 angels to destroy the world, and set him free. But instead he chose to die for me. Not because He had to, but because He wanted to.

RandomK Featured By Owner Nov 24, 2009

Awesome, I know. Too awesome to think about.

ServantofJesus Featured By Owner Jun 6, 2008

[yes I'm late replying to this, sorry

]

I definitely like this! The more 'torn apart' the flesh looks, the more Biblical it's potrayed

I like The Message version of Isaiah 52:13-15

"Just watch my servant blossom! Exalted, tall, head and shoulders above the crowd! But he didn't begin that way.
At first everyone was appalled. He didn't even look human— a ruined face, disfigured past recognition.
Nations all over the world will be in awe, taken aback, kings shocked into silence when they see him.
For what was unheard of they'll see with their own eyes, what was unthinkable they'll have right before them."

RandomK Featured By Owner Jul 31, 2008

hey no problem... better late then never, right??
Thanks for your comments!

TheTeleport Featured By Owner Sep 15, 2007

Another great drawing! This illustrate more than other images this torture Jesus Christ went through. Reminds me of
"Passion of Christ" the movie.. Where His suffering is detailed illustrated. I`ll fave your picture for sure..

RandomK Featured By Owner Sep 15, 2007

I'm really glad you like it. This was my attempt to "identify" with his suffering... something I always seem to have a problem doing.

TheTeleport Featured By Owner Sep 16, 2007

Me too, It helped for me to see "Passion of Christ" And I will soon see it agan..

TheTeleport Featured By Owner Sep 15, 2007

samthedragon Featured By Owner Jul 15, 2007

It makes me flinch looking at that =/ and to think he went through it all for us

patriot04401 Featured By Owner Jun 17, 2007

It's nice to see someone with lots of talant to put it to good use.

RandomK Featured By Owner Jun 17, 2007

Well thank you very much for the nice compliment!!

ChristianII Featured By Owner May 11, 2007 Writer

Nicely drawn. A bit gruesome though, but i suppose it is fitting

Nice detail on the arm.

Poo7878 Featured By Owner Apr 10, 2007 Traditional Artist

;-; makes me feel so lazy and worthless...but he forgives me =3 Very nice concept. I love everything about this picture. It gives me such a great feeling that I have Jesus.

guitarfreaky Featured By Owner Apr 3, 2007 Professional Digital Artist

I saw the title and expected to see him doing some woodwork but it was a deeper meaning of the sacrifice made. Nice drawing!

RandomK Featured By Owner Apr 5, 2007

Thank you

pheelip Featured By Owner Mar 26, 2007 Student General Artist

tres wonderful

HazelGazeHawk Featured By Owner Mar 23, 2007

......................I am speechless! I recently saw "The Passion of the Christ" again...and I also got my church's annual Passion Play coming up next week, this is a sobering reminder of how much it cost our Father to set us free from the law of sin and death - praise the Living God! How I thank Him for saving me every day and how much of a reminder it is that I should strive to be the man that Jesus died for me to be! Be encouraged fellow child of the Most High God!

In Christ's love and mine,
~ Kevin

RandomK Featured By Owner Mar 23, 2007

Well... thank you so much for such a well thought comment... most people only say like, "wow.. nice".
Anyway, I find that I have a hard time "feeling" any emotion over what Jesus did for us, so I kind of force myself to feel, and I do that by drawing painful pictures.. do you know what I mean?
I really do appreciate what Jesus went through.. though I so long to identify with it, I have a hard time realizing the severity of it all..
I hope I'm making sense?

anyway... thanks again

zheregon Featured By Owner Mar 18, 2007

Awesome... it's beautiful, not in the fact that it's attractive or pretty,
but in the fact that it carries such emotion behind it. And such meaning.
It really made me think... about all He went through, because He loved us..
that much. Brilliant piece. It doesn't shy away from what we need to see,
and what we don't like to think of. The club needs more artwork like this.
God bless you and your talent....Thank you for posting it. =]

RandomK Featured By Owner Mar 18, 2007

You humble me with words, friend. Thank you for your thoughtful comment.

zheregon Featured By Owner Mar 18, 2007

Anytime

Zcr0nK Featured By Owner Mar 18, 2007 Hobbyist General Artist

wow

amazing drawing but at the same time it brings out feelings of horror.... because of the suffering he went through.
very powerfull image. i think u captured the pain and suffering very well...

RandomK Featured By Owner Mar 18, 2007

Well thank you very much for your gracious words

Mizra Featured By Owner Mar 17, 2007 Professional Digital Artist

It makes me hurt so bad inside just seeing this. I wish I could just grab that nail, take it out, and clean the wounds up.

But if that happened, we'd all be condemned. A day doesn't go by that I am reminded of His Grace and Love for us.

Thanks, RK.

Odd-One-Out Featured By Owner Mar 17, 2007

Such an effective sketch because of the zooming in to the pierced hands. Well done!

Destinyknights Featured By Owner Mar 17, 2007 Professional General Artist

Im not very religious but this is emotional. Maybe I look into things too deeply but I sence alot of meaning in something like this. Excellent job.

RandomK Featured By Owner Mar 18, 2007

I guess the good thing about Jesus is that you don't have to be religious to appreciate what he did

Thank you!!

wilwar77 Featured By Owner Mar 17, 2007

well done sure enough he was

Salena99 Featured By Owner Mar 17, 2007

You can just see the gashes in his arms. But no matter how much we try, we can never completely imagine just what kind of torcher and pain he went through. Even the Passon movie can't express it. But great reminder.

sman96 Featured By Owner Mar 17, 2007

nice work!

thanks for reminding people like me about how he saved us...
great job dude!

DCLeadboot Featured By Owner Mar 17, 2007 Hobbyist Digital Artist

That's a powerful image!

Hands that flung stars into space, to cruel nails surrendered.
The Servant King (Graham Kendrick)

ServantofJesus Featured By Owner Jun 6, 2008

one of my favourite songs ^^

MrsSmeagol Featured By Owner Mar 17, 2007

Oh goodness...

. That's all I can say.

RandomK Featured By Owner Mar 18, 2007

Thanks. I love your avatar, btw.

MrsSmeagol Featured By Owner Mar 18, 2007

Thanks.

neojones777 Featured By Owner Mar 16, 2007

...And he was nailed through his hands to cause more torture, unlike normal crucifixian at the time, the high priests wanted him to suffer...
But to keep his hands from tearing free from the raiload spikes going through them, his arms were thoughrly bound to the cross beams, to keep his upper body on that cross of wood.

RandomK Featured By Owner Mar 17, 2007

I've heard people debate about that, and I've decided that it doesn't really matter WHERE they put the nails. It just matters that they did.

Thanks for commenting!

neojones777 Featured By Owner Mar 17, 2007

It does matter, for if his upperarms were not securely tied to the cross beam, his hands would of torn through due to the weight of his body, not to mention there are a lot of nerves in the hand.., and the High Priests wanted him to suffer. And the Romans were quite versed in inflicting prolonged pain on someone.
But I think I know what you mean, it was about handing oneself over into the jaws of the beast, an ultimate act of sacrifice.