mikehall12382…
Good point!
Read the book “The Passover Plot”.
It had the catholic church having a fit when it came out in the late ’60s. It’s a non-fiction book by a historian. His premise is that ‘j’ intended to fake his death and then “miraculously” rise from the dead. Unfortunately for him, a Roman soldier hastened his (normally slow death by crucifixion) death by sticking a spear in him. This put his co-conspiritors in tsuris, because now he REALLY was dead, and they thought their whole plan was kaput. They figured a way to fake his “resurrection”, enabling xtianity as we know it, to be born.
I don’t remember the author’s name but you can google the book name.