“How do,they know he didn’t just step on a nail and die from shock?”
It’s hard to tell from the one photo, but the nail appears to come through from the top. I believe we are seeing the bottom of the foot. Also, having stepped on a much smaller, pointier nail with a bare foot...it stuck into the bone, but I stopped putting weight on it before it could have gone through. It took two men pulling to help me get the nail out: one on the board and one on my bent knee. Penetration into the bone was probably 1/8th inch or so, then about 1 3/4 of meat from bottom of foot to the bone.
Ouch! Nothing hurts quite like a bone Injury, except maybe tetanus shots lol (actually the shingles shot was no picnic either lol).
I was thinking more like falling on a nail. Ive put a couple of nails,nails, my feet over the years,, once I fell from about 2 feet or so into a nail once, right up through the foot it went, was in a pig pen, right in the slop area. A board had fallen off and was buried in the slop. I was climbing over the fence, and slipped off. It caused my first tetanus shot which I think hurt more than the nail did.
Yeah it does look like it goes through the top. Wonder if he was a masochist lol? but yeah likely crucified.