the next thing to the Emperor on these shores. When he returned from the palace with a newly garbed Jesus, he hoped the presentation to the people would alter their attitudes. The intensity of the drive by the Temple authorities however, demonstrates an arrogance on their part, bordering on the hysterical and they whipped up the crowds in a way that took the situation away from his hands. The infamous deed of the washing of his hands off the whole matter was to become one of the most celebrated acts in the history of modern humanity. In fact the theatre behind all this, strikes one as a rehearsed exercise in keeping with the similarly theatrical nature of all the horror that followed. Could Jesus really have worked all this out for himself and skillfully forced the hand of the Jewish Sanhedrin to have him executed for heresy ? It does not make sense. What does matter, is that the descriptions of the events and the imagery adopted by the later Christian Church suggests that this was a religion in the making. Putting his head in the noose with intellectual hardheadedness may have been instinctive, but it does not prove that he organised his own crucifiction. It could show, that other people did, after the event, like Paul for example, who knew what Jesus had tried to do and put his own interpretation on it. The reason for this line of thought lies in the last supper testimonials which are so contrived as to point in the direction of a clever scene writer embellishing the scene long after the event. I am referring not just to Judas and his supposed betrayal of his Master, but to Jesus´s own supposed statements which in retrospect imply that he was making it all happen. If we add this to the red cloak, the reed and the crown of thorny myrtle, which
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