The Psalm of the Cross

It has been said that the best description in all of the Old Testament of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion is found in Psalm 22. The Psalm is written by David centuries before the crucifixion took place. Any personal suffering, pain, abandonment, hopelessness or illness that David personally ever felt could not produce this Psalm. It is unmistakably the account of a crucifixion. Crucifixion was not practiced in David’s time and would not be for many centuries. Also, it was a Roman not Jewish form of punishment. David would have had no more knowledge of this form of death than if he would have tried to explain death by lethal injection.