They literally stabbed him to make sure he was dead before taking him down. This was SOP for crucifixions.
[The Romans] had them scourged until their entrails were visible… The men [were then] dismissed, all covered in blood, a spectacle that struck such terror into their menacing foes that they dropped their arms and fled.
- The Jewish War
Crucifixion is meant to scare other people into submission to the Roman Empire. And, the scourging is what precedes the crucifixion in order to make it as bloody of a death as possible. Because if you crucify someone without scourging them what happens is the slow death by asphyxiation, which is terrible but it’s even more horrifying if you lacerate their bodies beforehand and that was the Roman custom. So, for example, Josephus. who was a first century Jewish historian who fought in the war against Rome as a general, describes scourgings by Roman in his book, The Jewish War.
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