09-20-2007, 04:19 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Crucifixion of three men and the survival of one.
The only person known in history to survive a Roman crucifixion is a friend whom Josephus saves after intervening with the Roman commander. Three are taken down but only one survives.
Josephus, Life, 75, p. 20 of Whistonâs Translation
  ... as I [Joseph Bar Mathias] came back, I saw many captives crucified; and remembered three of them as my former acquaintance. I was very sorry at this in my mind, and went with tears in my eyes to Titus, and told him of them; so he immediately commanded them to be taken down, and to have the greatest care taken of them, in order to their recovery; yet two of them died under the physicianâs hands, while the third recovered.
The gospels have a mysterious Joseph of Arimathea appear and go to the Roman commander and ask for Jesus to be taken down from among the three crucified. Jesus lives and the other two presumably die.
The Gospels After Josephus
© C.N.Carrington
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atrium/3678/JOEGOS4.htm<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The only person known in history to survive a Roman crucifixion is a friend whom Josephus saves after intervening with the Roman commander. Three are taken down but only one survives.
Josephus, Life, 75, p. 20 of Whistonâs Translation
  ... as I [Joseph Bar Mathias] came back, I saw many captives crucified; and remembered three of them as my former acquaintance. I was very sorry at this in my mind, and went with tears in my eyes to Titus, and told him of them; so he immediately commanded them to be taken down, and to have the greatest care taken of them, in order to their recovery; yet two of them died under the physicianâs hands, while the third recovered.
The gospels have a mysterious Joseph of Arimathea appear and go to the Roman commander and ask for Jesus to be taken down from among the three crucified. Jesus lives and the other two presumably die.
The Gospels After Josephus
© C.N.Carrington
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atrium/3678/JOEGOS4.htm<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->