have caused. A politicized Messiah of the stature of Jesus, straight from the arms of a revered hermit pastor much loved in those days, would have been a totally different story and the loud demands for his life for having as much as assumed the mantle of a leader or Son of God, are probably the very origins of the Passion. The scale and ferocity of the events contain all the necessary drama, public participation, ceremonial and cruelty that only a bitter, cynical and political Priesthood could have conjured up and yet the description of the whole process is that of a much guarded “Mithraic” mystery including all the regalia and acts of punishment. The temple priests may well have been members of these “cults” to please and perhaps spy on the Romans, but perhaps we may never know.
Jesus had awoken the temple authorities with a very strange sense of impending change and public leadership – a foreboding that told them that the Northern Messiah, much predicted by the Hasmodean Essene, may have arrived. To Judeans that was the end of their era and the fear “that Israel would slip through the legs of Judea” to assume its lost authority, as prophecied, was enough to set the path for any form of twisted evidence to condemn and have him removed from the scene. The storming of the temple and the direct involvement in the castigation of the bankers from the temple precincts, was all they needed to involve Rome in the blood of this innocent man. A man who simply wished to liberate the downtrodden and abused and give them a share in their own destiny.
Ambitions of a few – damnation of the rest.
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