Timeline for Is it possible that the soldiers near Pontius Pilate were less in number than the people in the crowd at Jesus' trial?
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| Jan 11, 2019 at 15:51 | comment | added | Lucian | I am familiar with Tektonics. | |
| Jan 11, 2019 at 14:53 | comment | added | CMK | @Lucian After researching this issue further, I have found that there are other explanations for Pilate's behavior that may be more probable. I suggest this article. www.tektonics.org/gk/jesustrial.php#jn8. The link doesn't seem to be working properly, so the name of the article is "The Trial of Jesus: Authentic Historical Account" on Tektonics.org, if you care to read it. | |
| Jan 9, 2019 at 9:32 | comment | added | Lucian | I honestly don't recall saying that they lived to tell the story, and my points aren't mine to begin with, since I didn't exactly invent them. The Romans did not conquer the world by outnumbering their enemies on the battlefield; quite the contrary. In ancient times, as today, triumph is usually a result of having well-trained, well-organized, well-funded men. Why do you think that all civilized Western countries abandoned conscription in favor of skilled professionals ? Why do you think Russians suffered such terrible losses in the two World Wars, despite having numbers on their side ? | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 23:20 | comment | added | CMK | this, why would Pilate take the risk? Finally, even after the Jews accused Pilate of rebelling against Caesar, he tried to reason with them before giving Jesus up, as John 19:14-15 indicate. This is when Pilate would have desired to tame the crowd by giving up Jesus, as the other texts say. God bless. | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 23:17 | comment | added | CMK | @Lucian I'd have to disagree with your points. Firstly, there were more than 300 soldiers who fought for the Greeks at the Battle of Thermopylae, although there were 300 Spartans. Secondly, all of the Greeks in the battle were killed, which proves my point. Thirdly, I don't see how a large group of Jews with weapons could not achieve their goal of attacking Pilate, which the text suggests they were intending to do, if the group of soldiers defending him was small enough. I can easily see one hundred or so armed Jews overpowering 15 Roman soldiers, for example. And, if the numbers were like | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 20:17 | comment | added | Lucian | Honestly, little of what you wrote in this post seems to make any sense, either militarily or scripturally. Throughout human history, it was usually skill rather than numbers that determined the outcome of battles; numbers only then mattered when fighting skills were equally matched (e.g., the Spartan 300 decimated thousands of so-called Immortals on the battle field; invading Mongol hordes were no match for Western European mounted knights in full armor; etc). Biblically, the real reason is spelled out in John 19:12. | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 16:56 | comment | added | CMK | Thanks. Do you believe that my suggestion in the question is plausible? | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 16:19 | comment | added | Lucian | The middle sentence of your first post-quotation paragraph. | |
| Jan 7, 2019 at 1:42 | comment | added | CMK | @Lucian I agree, but what in the question made you say this? | |
| Jan 6, 2019 at 23:39 | comment | added | Lucian | Quenching rebellions and provoking them are two distinct things. | |
| Jan 5, 2019 at 0:41 | history | asked | CMK | CC BY-SA 4.0 |