Nobody measured Jesus’s cross, and the Gospels tell us neither its size nor its weight. Most modern estimates put the crossbeam, the part he probably carried, at 20 to 57 kilograms (44 to 125 pounds), and the whole cross at 80 to more than 136 kilograms (176 to more than 300 pounds). Roman crosses were generally low. The Gospels keep the numbers back and give us the man instead. John says only that Jesus went out “bearing his cross” (John…

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