The Hunt For The Lance That Killed Jesus Christ | Myth Hunters

Published 2024-05-24
The Lance of Longinus is one of the ancient world's most coveted relics. This ancient object is said to be the spear that wounded Christ and has been sought by priests and dictators alike throughout human history.

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All Comments (21)
  • @normanbonk8064
    The lance didn't kill Jesus. They stuck it in Him to see if He was dead. He was dead. Thwt's why they didn't break His legs to hasten death, fulfilling the prophesy, "Not a single bone of His will be broken." Prayers.
  • @ssherrierable
    Nobody back 2000 years ago knew that Jesus and his story would end up being what it is today so I doubt most of these missing artifacts from his time will ever be found, who even knows if they were taken care of?
  • @AKSnowbat907
    Isn't it likely that, as the Roman's didn't believe in Christ the spear just went back into an arms room like any other spear? History doesn't look for the weapons that kill a man until well after the weapon has been lost.
  • 😢😭 always hurts me to hear what they did to christ our saviour even more that he died for all our sins who can deny that he is our lord n saviour christ IS KING 🤴
  • Jesus was already dead, decided to give up His life before the roman soldier checked with the lance, there is no record of somebody being crucified to die within 3 hrs since the punishment is designed to prolong suffering, another fact Jesus was in full control of his own life when He would die or being resurected by The Holy spirit of the Father inside Him.
  • @mentalmetalist
    “The hunt for”. Sounds like you haven’t found it. Similar to the hunt for Bigfoot.
  • @readtruth6670
    The spear isn’t important. The blood and water is. From John 19: 31 Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. 32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him. 33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. 34 But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water. 35 He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—that you also may believe. 36 For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken.” 37 And again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they have pierced.” At the same time (because it was close to sundown) the priests at the Temple would have been pouring water all over the floor of the Temple because they had sacrificed hundreds of thousands of lambs on that day—the Day of Preparation. The water and the blood of those sacrifices would drain out of a culvert on the South side of the Temple (which faces East). As blood and water flowed out of the Temple’s side, blood and water (from the pericardium) was flowing from the side of Christ—who is the REAL TEMPLE, the co-dwelling of man and Creator as one. Jesus Christ is the True Lamb, the True Temple, both High Priest AND Sacrifice for the sins of mankind. If you believe it, you belong to Him and He belongs to you.
  • On the cross, it could take hours for a person being crucified to die. Jesus died after saying, "Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit/It is finished." So. When the Roman soldier came to verify that Jesus and the two thieves were, indeed, dead, he found Jesus had truly expired. He pierced the side of the Christ with a lance, but did NOT break his legs. The Bible account is quite clear on this.
  • @LUC1FER_R1S1NG
    "THEY HAVE THE SPEAR OF DESTINY" -Lucifer In Constantine
  • Jesus was not killed by a lance. He was already dead when the lance was thrust into his side.
  • @therealking6202
    What's with the choppy audio? Is anyone else getting that?!?
  • @wolfhound45
    The lance did not kill Jesus. It confirmed that He was dead. No one took His life from Him. He laid it down and took it back again.
  • My x- mother,-in law claimed to have a splinter of the cross of Jesus. She kept in in a little tin box and used to rattle it during Boston Celtic games. This was in the day of Larry Bird. I am sure lots of folks also had some. Give me a break 😃
  • @petelamps6055
    At 32.12 did anyone else see the millennium falcon?
  • @harryflower1810
    The lance did not kill the christ it only pierced his side to prove his death
  • @pluribus_unum
    As a friend humorously pointed out to me once, "he told 12 guys to eat his flesh and drink his blood, then you're confused when the stone is removed and there's no body left?" Resurrection? Or just the foreseeable consequences of specific orders?
  • Bad title! The Bible says He was already dead when the soldier pierced Him with a spear. Blood and water flowed out. For us this signifies the sacraments of Baptism and Eucharist by which we receive salvation from sin and death through Jesus' sacrificial death and resurrection.
  • This guy that's talking about the vault,looks like he's tired. 😂😂😂 Linus wrote a book 📚📚📚 about the experience of the holy blood splashing on him. A very good 📚📚 book by the way. Now General Patton was killed. By the upper echelons.
  • @MSHguitar
    Jesus laid down his life no Roman killed him