[metmom]

God is GOD, and Satan is a pimp (in the Corleonean sense of the term). Perhaps the Temple leaders take Jesus and stone Him for blasphemy; perhaps Herod has Him beheaded; perhaps the Zealots turn on Him and stab him to death a la Julius Caesar. But we can be certain of two things: Jesus would have been killed that day because God had decreed it from before the foundation of the world, and the method would have also been prophesied, as the effects of the crucifixion method were in Psalm 22, because God would have known beforehand that Pilate would listen to his wife and not be a participant in the death of Christ.

Unless Jesus died on a cross, in a crucifixion, prophecy could not and would not have been fulfilled. Psalm 22

He could not have died another way.

[inpajamas]

Pontius Pilate should have listened to talk radio.

[chajin]

Unless Jesus died on a cross, in a crucifixion, prophecy could not and would not have been fulfilled. Psalm 22

True. But if Pilate had listened to his wife and not crucified Jesus, and if instead Jesus had been stoned or stabbed to death instead, Psalm 22 would have painted a relevant picture, because God would have known ahead of time.