are the stage elements of the Roman/Greek mystery school initation of Demeter, we have High Roman officialdom conspiracy in the background. In short, the creation of a divine mortal. All very strange indeed and perhaps Jesus was but a pawn in a much more sophisticiated exercise of pure stage management. The matter requires a very deep study all of its own. Jesus had a right to declare that he was what people made him out to be, but he was not going to confirm it, because he was too clever for that. Assuming powers or rights was not statesmanship. He knew the traps and he wanted to make sure that the burden of responsibility for the whole thing rested on the Jewish priests and not on Pilate. Herod would have been incensed to the point of removing Jesus to a safe place if his reception of the man was what the bible tells us. The scene with Barabbas fits in like a glove and again, the scenario begins to sound like a good calculated story. The robber terrorist or the gentle preacher with wrong ideas. Yet Jesus is chosen – unless he himself volunteered to die in his place, which may be what happened The priests may have continued with their accusations of profound heresy, taunting him to die for the robber, if he was a merciful God and then come back to life again as a Divine entity.
In any case, Herod was hardly the taunting figure that the Church makes him out to be. Professor Schoenberg interprets the so called mocking garments as more of a gift of fine clothes with which to impress his people in view of the possibility that Jesus might have been dressed in simple loin cloths which might have been badly torn and soiled in the early fraca in the garden of Gethsemane. In fact there is a very real need to analyse the bible
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