Saved the Israelis paying for the execution - do you know what the prices of crosses was back then?
Anyway, that was Israeli's first false flag. They arranged the death but blamed the fucking Romans.
Since rome kept records and there were historians and scribes to record events, you can't call the executions by crucifixion a false flag. There were more than 250,000 jews crucified by the romans. More than million forced to leave or taken by the romans. The temple destroyed. Still thousands of others killed in the jewish wars against the romans.
These are facts, not false flags.
Was there a Jesus and was he crucified? His story was not written by the jews but the followers of Jesus more than 70 yrs after the fact. Stories were word of mouth and then finally written. Most highly influenced by the Falvian dynasty. Much of the story of Jesus is likely untrue, but there must have been some basis behind the tale to be so influential.
Jesus died for his threat to the roman rule. It was quite logical under their laws. The trial has been investigated and must be available online if it matter that much to you.
Jesus, as the gospels tell it made a conscious choice to stage his death that way. Jesus picked his death and walked forward with his eyes wide open.
If not for the story of the crucifixion and raising from the death, there would be no Christianity or likely Islam, since it was a monk who taught Mohammad about Jesus and his mother Mary.
Christians also died by the thousands at the hand of rome and blamed for everything from the bread not raising to the burning of rome.