re:"The Romans crucified a lot of people and I know of no records being kept of them."
There are lots of records and description of the crucifixions....
And you say Jesus ascended bodily to heaven??? So heaven is definitely "up"....up where? And what would a body be used for? You ever wonder about these things??? And there are witnesses to seeing a body go up? David Copperfield does it in Las Vegas...
"Roman citizens could only be crucified in the most extreme of circumstances (treason), but others could be crucified for almost any reason. There are a number of cases when Roman authorities engaged in mass crucifixions in order to subdue rebellious populations, especially in the troublesome province of Judaea, as Josephus records at some length. Josephus wrote about Titus’ treatment of the Jews:
“They were first whipped, and then tormented with all sorts of tortures, before they died, and were then crucified before the wall of the city. This miserable procedure made Titus greatly to pity them, while they caught every day five hundred Jews; nay, some days they caught more... The main reason why he did not forbid that cruelty was this, that he hoped the Jews might perhaps yield at that sight, out of fear lest they might themselves afterwards be liable to the same cruel treatment. So the soldiers, out of the wrath and hatred they bore the Jews, nailed those they caught, one after one way, and another after another, to the crosses, by way of jest, when their multitude was so great, that room was wanting for the crosses, and crosses wanting for the bodies.”" |
