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What Romans said about crucifixion

Stephen M. Miller
Painting of crucifixion of several people.
SLOW DEATH. When Christians were telling the story of Jesus’ crucifixion, Roman writers were describing in gritty detail crucifixions they saw with their own eyes. Painting by Fyodor Bronnikov.

MOST FOLKS DON’T KNOW what Romans in Jesus’ day had to say about crucifixion.

Many know what the Bible says about it.

They know that it says “Soldiers took Jesus into their headquarters…they stripped him… spit on him and grabbed a stick and struck him” (Matthew 27:28-30).

They know that “Pilate had Jesus flogged with a lead-tipped whip” (John 19:1).

But at the same time Christians were telling the story of Jesus’ crucifixion, Roman writers and politicians were writing letters and books describing crucifixions they saw with their own eyes.

I just finished putting together a short video reporting some of their gritty descriptions.

Here’s one:

“Is there such a thing as a person who would actually prefer wasting away in pain on a cross—dying limb by limb one drop of blood at a time—rather than dying quickly? Would any human being willingly choose to be fastened to that cursed tree, especially after the beating that left him deathly weak, deformed, swelling with vicious welts on shoulders and chest, and struggling to draw every last, agonizing breath? Anyone facing such a death would plead to die rather than mount the cross.”
—Seneca, (about 4 BC-65 AD), Epistulae morales (Moral Letters), 101.14

Here’s the link to several other painfully descriptive quotes, reported in a short video: What Romans said about crucifixion

For more about crucifixion

  • I know what’s wonderful about the Cross
  • A Quick Guided Tour Through the Bible, “Jesus’s Last Week,” pages 174-181.
  • The Jesus of the Bible, “Jesus executed and buried,” pages 345-356.

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STEPHEN M. MILLER is an award winning bestselling Christian author of easy-reading books about the Bible and Christianity and author of the Casual English Bible® paraphrase. His books have sold over two million copies and include The Complete Guide to the Bible and Who’s and Where’s Where in the Bible.

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  1. Clyde E. McNell Sr

    March 24, 2016 at 11:46 am

    Your treatment of the biblical truth is such a blessing. The books you have written are in deed a great help for teaching and passing on what is important.

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