“Had Christ not owned a cape so precious that even well-paid Roman soldiers did not want to cut it in half?”
In an attempt at keeping contextually accurate, by rending the cloth the soldiers knew that the value would be appreciably less, which meant that the amount of cheap rude wine procured would be less as well.
I always wonder about the blood. We can assume that all of His clothes were soaked in it, so to me it’s always been a question of who (among the unbelievers) would want it at all? Did they have a good way to remove blood stains back then, in the days before bleach?
“Had Christ not owned a cape so precious that even well-paid Roman soldiers did not want to cut it in half?”
In an attempt at keeping contextually accurate, by rending the cloth the soldiers knew that the value would be appreciably less, which meant that the amount of cheap rude wine procured would be less as well.
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Not clear what you’re saying here. Are you disputing the idea that Jesus Christ our Lord was wearing a fine piece of clothing by comparing it to cheap wine? (If so, how does the context bear that out?)