“…they would crucify Him.”

"All men having power ought to be mistrusted." —James Madison

Republic 2.361e - 2.362a: "What they will say is this: that such being his disposition the just man will have to endure the lash, the rack, chains, the branding-iron in his eyes, and finally, after every extremity of suffering, he will be crucified, and so will learn his lesson that not to be but to seem just is what we ought to desire."

Yet… In The End…He Wins!

He spoke like a prophet here…Perhaps he saw or knew something most others didn’t.

Did he really say this or is it just to make this edit?

In the name of the father, the son, and the Holy Spirit, amen🙏🏾

I’m a Christian but to be honest, that’s not what he says, it would take 2 minutes to check this. And it’s Plato writing as the voice of another character, addressing Socrates about a hypothetical question about what happens when a “just” man who has horrible things done to him, even to the point of being impaled (not crucified). It wasn’t uncommon for a man to be accused of a crime he didn’t commit and have a mob come and subject him to terrible things. But even the character addressing Socrates is using it as a hypothetical in the form of a dialogue. But what’s more interesting is that the argument is about how the person being subjected to that punishment might actually deserve it because of other actions he’s taken that aren’t necessarily seen as unjust according to law. And the one arguing about it asks Socrates if it’s not a divine conspiracy where the unjust please the gods enough to appear just in their eyes so that they avoid divine punishment, but insinuates maybe they should face earthly ones (such as the earlier described physical punishment)?

I cringed while watching that