An Ancient historian tells us that at the siege of Babylon, Darius condemned three thousand captives to the death of the cross.
Another relates how when Alexander inflicted long-threatened vengeance on Tyre, he crucified two thousand prisoners, and that the crosses stood on the shore thicker than ship’s masts in harbour.
When the Romans let fly their eagles against Jerusalem a spectator informs us that there wasn’t enough wood to make the crosses required for the crucifixions ordered.
Yet – had all of Babylon’s, Tyre’s and Jerusalem’s crosses been raised together, with an angel from heaven on each, to procure our salvation, they could never have done so.