How could anyone survive Crucifixion?
Crucifixion is often thought of as to mean death. People associate Crucifixion firstly with Jesus Christ and secondly with death. What can we find out about the practices of Crucifixion, and where there any peculiarities with Jesus’ Crucifixion? The famous Jewish Historian, Josephus narrates the following story set in 1st century Palestine: “I was sent by Titus Caesar with Ceralius and a thousand riders to a certain town by the name of Thecoa to find out whether a camp could be set up at this place. On my return I saw many prisoners who had been crucified, and recognized three of them as my former companions. I was inwardly very sad about this and went with tears in my eyes to Titus and told him about them. He at once gave the order that they should be taken down and given the best treatment so they could get better. However two of them died while being attended to by the doctor; the third recovered.” Thus it was indeed possible for people to survive Crucifixion given treatment. There
