I have two huge nails on my table. Forged about a century ago, if not even earlier, they were used to hold thick oak beams together. Both come from my garden, which is laden with building materials of times past. It takes a few seconds to realize that nails like these would never be used to pin anyone to the cross. And three of them would be needed for the job at the very minimum. Lumpy and jagged as they are, the nails would only shorten the torment. And how. The bleeding from all four limbs would surely be tremendous. If anyone would be put to the cross, he or she would be tied to it, instead. This way the torment would be that much more enduring. As well as that much more effective from the vantage point of the powers that be. Biblical nails are therefore nothing but idle inventions of the intervening generations, which have been bent on technological development, misguided as it has ever been when it comes to the essential.