-->..For instance, the prophecy in Psalms centuries before Jesus was born about how He would die. In the psalms it says, "They peirce my hands and feet." Executing people on a cross wasn't even around back then.


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about 1000 years before jesus was born this method was used to punish slaves and people who did something "anti-religious".

romans, persians, phynicians and so forth used this very polular method. some used trees others used other methods.
it was a very popular punishment because the death struggle takes a lot of days.

alexander the great prefered some wooden piles, syrmantions preferd to undress you naked and wrap your body arround the heat of the sand.
some where bound, others where nailed (if the culture allready invented nails) and even others where hung up.


2.) even more important is the fact that jesus was just one jesus in a big row of them. They all shared one thing: they where executed.

here the problems of all prophets and martyrers start: with their death their ideas will die as well

jesus from nazareth though had the brilliant idea to come back from the dead and this made him way more popular then the other ones. allowing to establish a religion on his interpretation of the current religion.

you might say what you want about god or not but this was very well done (in any way )