Exactly.

Skinned alive with knives.

For a lie they say.

He, 

nor none of the other apostles, 

never, 

not once, 

ever,

recanted and said it was all hoax.

If you knew it was a lie?

What would you have done?

I can tell you what you would have done.

You would have saved your own ass that 's what you would have done.