It started out as a question about the LotD, but if I recall correctly, someone in this thread has said that Christians should disregard the part of the New Testament that specifies that some Jews were responsible for the death of Jesus, which goes beyond any questions about the LotD.

If passing out literature (passing out literature before the invention of the printing press?) about the Roman authorities executing people would have the effect of instigating popular uprisings, I would think that the Roman authorities would have rethought the expediency of using crucifixion as a means of executing people. It seems to me that it would become very expensive if they had to put down popular uprisings every time they carried out a crucifixion that the local populace felt was unjust (which I would expect was rather often). The Romans may have been brutal, but they weren't stupid. There was a reason that they used crucifixion as a means of executing people. They did it for the purpose of controlling the masses.

My point is that the speculative version of events proposed using the fictional character, Remark, doesn't make any sense.