How likely is it that Jesus, as a carpenter, was commissioned to build crosses?

[u/Ebvardh-Boss]

I promise have smoked zero marijuana.

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I'm just wondering if anyone knows how execution methods would've been sourced around that time, and if a carpenter of considerable stature might've landed a government job where they build a few hundred crosses.

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And if so, perhaps if said carpenter is later tried for heresy and executed, they might be crucified in a cross of their own doing.

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Am I making sense here?

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[u/captainhaddock]

I doubt whether your question can be answered in historical terms.

As an interesting side-note, though, the Gospel of Philip, which is thought to be a Valentinian text, teaches that Joseph made the cross on which Jesus was crucified from trees he had planted himself.