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| Uspenski orthodox cathedral Helsinki |
Kimmo Huosionmaa
The crucifixion is probably the most hated and brutal way to execute the human been, and because this method was chosen for execution of Jesus Christ we hate that method very much. And we are of course hating Pilatus, the man who gave that judgment after 2000 years. But when we are looking for the method, what was chosen to kill Jesus, we must think that the death penalties are mentioned for the warning, what would happened if somebody speaks or acts against the Roman Emperor. The crucifixion was one method, what was able to use against the people, who threatened the superiority of the Roman Empire, and the problem of that method was that the crucified person should not yell anything against the Rome, and something had to be used to close the victim's mouth.
Because if that person hangs in the execution pile, will that person say something bad for the Rome for last words, and that was the reason, why the death on the cross was so feared. Everybody feared that method and that was not comfortable even for the Roman authorities. So when Roman authorities wanted that the person would be silent forever, they normally send the undercover legionnaires to neutralize the target.
When we are talking about whipping, the methodology what the Roman empire used in that kind of punishment was poisoning with Cobras poison. The whips were moistened in the poison, what was tapped from Cobra or Mamba, and after that, the whips just touched the victim. That poison is the mixture with neurotoxic and the component what destroys tissue, and causes the situation, where on victim's body will open the cut, where the nervous poison will be suck in the victim’s blood, causing the death almost immediately. Same way the crown of thorns could be deadly if that is pet with the poison of those snakes, and of course the nails that are used in this action, would be covered with poison.
So why those methods were not used in this particular punishment? Why Roman Empire and Pontius Pilatus made that man the hero? Was in the Roman interests actually use that very frighten punishment for the man, who did not even take the sword in his hand? The normal methodology what the Romans used was that they were the “nice guys”, who just cut the heads off, and the tough and painful methods were reserved for the vassals of Rome, whose mission was to prepare the area for the Roman control. And those men were extremely hated.
The reason why Roman vassal Herodes ordered the massacre of Jerusalem about 30 years before this particular eastern. The Christmas night massacre, where all children of that city were killed, was meant for killing the King David family and cut the bloodline of the king of Israel. There is one very interesting part of the Holy Bible, and there was mentioned, that Josef was a room and family of King David, what might mean that Maria was actually the member of the royal court of King David. Josef was also the high-rank nobleman, who was from the remarkable family, but not member of the royal family of David. But the Holy Bible was not ever mentioned one very important thing.
How close member of that royal family was for David. Did they be some kind of cousins? And another question will raise from that book. Why didn’t they have room in that city? When the Romans were ordered that tax collection and the massacre, they were calculated the people, and reserved them the rooms. That would make the arresting easier, but did somebody took the place of that family? Or did Josef or Maria actually lied that they were members of the royal family? And the question is, why they didn’t have that room in the city? Why did they have to go in the cowshed? This is the questions that are made in this case from 2000 years ago.
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