[Texas2step]

I agree that lethal injection would not have sufficed for the death of our Savior.

You are absolutely correct. Very good comment.

The scourging and crucifixion were required for the fulfillment of prophesy, as well as the blood sacrifice for our atonement. Thanks for those insights.

[Taliesan]

The prophecies had spoken of his "stripes".

This was the opening verse on the movie screen. All the reviewers read the verse before they saw anything else. They all know that the artistic rubric of the whole film was to be that He would take the STRIPES of our healing.

Also, it was necessary that Jesus' mode of death be symmetrical with what men do to God every day. The greater and more pure the love, the more like torture is the rejection from the beloved.

Never have I seen so much moral obtuseness written about anything, ever. It is all so illuminating.