Emphasis Preaching Journal

It is a tradition in the Philippines that each year on Good Friday a number of people volunteer to be crucified. In 1997, fourteen people agreed to be nailed to a cross. With thousands of people looking on, those fourteen people had five-inch nails hammered into their hands and feet, as they were then lifted up onto wooden crosses. After enduring that agony for about fifteen minutes, the people were then taken down from their crosses, bandaged up, and rushed to a nearby hospital. It seems that those people feel that by doing that, they are paying God back for their sins.