HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHHA that is the most tragic things I have ever heard from one called a believer......Jesus must have been stupid when he told them to search the scriptures for they are they that testify of me......or maybe he did not understand that these things were hidden and no one could understand.....Abraham must have been stupid as well to tell the rich man that his 5 brothers had the word which could keep them from coming to the place of torment...or Moses lifting the brazen serpent or the institution of the passover or Job speaking of his redeemer living and Job knowing he would be resurrected and see him with his own eyes.......WOW man.............It is truly tragic that many believe what you said above........
There are over 100 O.T. prophecies concerning the persecution and crucifixion of JESUS such as the couple below......it is ignorant to say that these could not be seen by the men and women of faith that LOOKED forward to their MESSIAH......and before the N.T. was written and before JESUS even was born they fully understood being crucified which Rome had been doing for over 8 or 9 decades before Christ was crucified. Crucifixion was a WELL KNOWN method know to ALL in the Middle East LONG before ROME.....
Psalm 22:16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
Zecheriah 12:10 "I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.
NOTE: John 19:36-37 For these things came to pass to fulfill the Scripture, "NOT A BONE OF HIM SHALL BE BROKEN."
And again another Scripture says, "THEY SHALL LOOK ON HIM WHOM THEY PIERCED."
The history and pathology of crucifixion.
In antiquity crucifixion was considered one of the most brutal and shameful modes of death. Probably originating with the Assyrians and Babylonians, it was used systematically by the Persians in the 6th century BC. Alexander the Great brought it from there to the eastern Mediterranean countries in the 4th century BC, and the Phoenicians introduced it to Rome in the 3rd century BC. It was virtually never used in pre-Hellenic Greece. The Romans perfected crucifion for 500 years until it was abolished by Constantine I in the 4th century AD. Crucifixion in Roman times was applied mostly to slaves, disgraced soldiers, Christians and foreigners--only very rarely to Roman citizens. Death, usually after 6 hours--4 days, was due to multifactorial pathology: after-effects of compulsory scourging and maiming, haemorrhage and dehydration causing hypovolaemic shock and pain, but the most important factor was progressive asphyxia caused by impairment of respiratory movement. Resultant anoxaemia exaggerated hypovolaemic shock. Death was probably commonly precipitated by cardiac arrest, caused by vasovagal reflexes, initiated inter alia by severe anoxaemia, severe pain, body blows and breaking of the large bones. The attending Roman guards could only leave the site after the victim had died, and were known to precipitate death by means of deliberate fracturing of the tibia and/or fibula, spear stab wounds into the heart, sharp blows to the front of the chest, or a smoking fire built at the foot of the cross to asphyxiate the victim.
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