The icon of the handwritten second half of the XXth century Century, the removal of the cross, on the wooden board of the circumference
The icon is fulfilled in the canons of icon painting, the representation and the circulating side of the icon have insignificant damages caused by time and external influence.
Voluntarily accepting suffering, crucifixion and death on the cross, the God Jesus Christ committed the salvation of the human race from sin and eternal death. The crucifixion took place on Friday, the eve of the great Jewish holiday of Easter. In order not to give up their bodies being executed on crosses, the Jews asked Pilate to hasten their death. Pilate agreed.
The coming fighters cut off the legs of two robbers: after that the crucified man died almost immediately. But, having come to Jesus and convinced that He had already died, the fighters did not begin to cut off His legs. So that there were no doubts about the death of Jesus Christ, one of the fighters pierced the edges with his spear. The blood and water immediately drained from the wound. It was a clear witness of death.
On the same evening one of the members of Sinedrion, the secret disciple of Jesus Christ, Joseph Arimafeisky, came to Pilate. He was a man of righteous living and did not share in the disapproval of the Savior. Joseph asked Pilate for permission to remove the body of Jesus from the cross and bury it.