Steve Campbell, Author of Historical Accuracy:

The account of Jesus’ Torture before Crucifixion by Order of Pilate Reads Like It Was by Order of Titus

Josephus writes painfully that at Titus’s order, the Jews, upon their capture:

were accordingly scourged and subjected to torture of every description
[before being killed by crucifixion opposite the walls.]
500 were daily captured, sometimes more.
Titus hoped the torture and crucifixions would induce other Jews to surrender.
The Roman soldiers, out of rage and hatred amused themselves by nailing
the prisoners in different postures.

Prisoners also died in violent celebratory games with wild beasts or with each other
in Caesarea Philippi, Caesarea Martinma, Berytus, and Syrian cities.
Titus also cut off the hands of prisoners.

The scourging and crucifixion by a man who found no fault in him (think Mel Gibson’s movie, The Passion of the Christ)
in comparison to the scourging and crucifixion by Titus and Roman soldiers of the Jew Revolt.

Mark also speaks of the Legion of demons who possessed a man.
Was this the PTSD aftermath of the Jewish Revolt put down by Titus?

King Agrippa II who entertained Vespasian and Titus had no story to tell of “Jesus of the late 20s/early 30s” and how the oral tradition of his biography inspired people of Gamala, Galilee to be pro-Roman, against rebellion?

In the Gospel of Mark, Don’t lord power over people the way the Gentiles do is highly likely a reference to the way Titus lorded his power over the defeated Jews. Mark’s audience likely remembered how Agrippa II followed in the footsteps of Titus.

When the Biblical Jesus feeding the multitudes had the people sitting in companies, group by group, that is a recall of how Roman soldiers were fed in multitudes, especially when legions were left in Israel after the First Jewish-Roman War.

Inspired by The Gospel of Mark and the Roman-Jewish War of 66-70 CE, pages 22-26, by Stephen Simon Kimondo, PhD