The saddest day on earth

Here, I'll bring on a new thread.

This was the saddest day on earth. Jesus was dead. There was no question about it. The Romans were experts, and everybody knew it. He was dead, thoroughly dead, in the most public possible way.

Absolutely everyone knew without question that he was dead.

The crucified might take lingering days to die. Because of the holidays, the Romans dispatched the three crucified early with a sword up under the ribs into the heart.

Except one of them, unusually, was already dead. But they put the sword into his heart to be sure. We know they pieced his heart by report of the draining of that clear liquid, I forget what it's called, that surrounds the heart.

You don't get deader than Romans made you.

Jesus was dead, that one thing was certain.