...and one month later the old city was also captured, apart from the palace of Herod who remained occupied for another three month by a group of immovable fighters of the Jewish resistance.
The Romans took revenge in a terrifying way. Hundreds of people were crucified among which the three essaean priests whom Flavus Josephus mentioned in his biography. In Chapter 8 it has been discussed how Josephus, with the help of an acquainted physician. managed to relieve his three friends from their crosses. Two of them die, the third one survived the crucifixion. The impression this survival must have made on the Essaeans should not be underestimated. In the entire history there has never been knowledge of one other case of somebody who survived a crucifixion. This was something so extraordinary exceptional that it was automatically regarded by those familiar with the essaean ideology, as naturally an image of the death and resurrection of the hypothetically perfect human of the Jesus-metaphor with which one had become familiar through the preaching of Paul. Although Paul had already died by that time, people had become familiar with this Jesus-metaphor which Paul had been preaching, so that when this exceptional survival from the cross of one of the three essaean priests became regarded as the image of the death and resurrection of the metaphor Jesus, Paul became sort of automatically represented by his successor Luke and Peter's successor — of the spiritualized interpretation of the Law — Mark.
The Romans took revenge in a terrifying way. Hundreds of people were crucified among which the three essaean priests whom Flavus Josephus mentioned in his biography. In Chapter 8 it has been discussed how Josephus, with the help of an acquainted physician. managed to relieve his three friends from their crosses. Two of them die, the third one survived the crucifixion. The impression this survival must have made on the Essaeans should not be underestimated. In the entire history there has never been knowledge of one other case of somebody who survived a crucifixion. This was something so extraordinary exceptional that it was automatically regarded by those familiar with the essaean ideology, as naturally an image of the death and resurrection of the hypothetically perfect human of the Jesus-metaphor with which one had become familiar through the preaching of Paul. Although Paul had already died by that time, people had become familiar with this Jesus-metaphor which Paul had been preaching, so that when this exceptional survival from the cross of one of the three essaean priests became regarded as the image of the death and resurrection of the metaphor Jesus, Paul became sort of automatically represented by his successor Luke and Peter's successor — of the spiritualized interpretation of the Law — Mark.
(Pierre Krijbolder, Crucifixion and Turin Shroud Mysteries Solved: Jesus Was Not the Crucified Man!, p. 175, my bold)