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This man, born as a Jew, who lived and taught as a Jew, who died
as a Jew, and who was crucified under the Roman Empire as a common criminal by
a means so barbarous, that Roman law reserved that form of slow, gruesome death
solely for non-citizens of the Empire.
By all accounts, by any manner of sociopolitical analysis,
that should have been the end of it. As
the French say, C’èst fini: It’s over.
Good riddance.
He was just another rabble-rouser from that unmanageable Roman
colony – only one among hundreds of others who dared to cause turmoil in Palestine
of the first century – nailed to a cross, now gone and forgotten.
