Volume I: The Flood 353, The Eighth Day of Jossure

The soldiers rushed towards Josus, and Peter drew his sword and stood in front of him. Half of a soldier's ear was opened. Jesus stopped Peter, walked over and reached over to the soldier's cheek, and the wound was miraculously healed. By this time the soldiers had gathered around him with chains, and they had seized him and led him down the mountain like a prisoner.

Jesus was taken to the house of Caiaphas, the chief elder of the Aroho temple and high priest, and although it was late at night, the temple high priests came, and they decided to interrogate Jesus here overnight. While the crowd of revelers in the city had not completely dispersed, if the outcome of the interrogation was favorable to them: the guilt of Jesus was announced before dawn so that everyone could see what had happened to him: if the outcome of the interrogation was unfavorable to them, he would be secretly detained and executed after the pilgrims had gone.

The disciples John and Peter followed the soldiers to Caiaphas' house in the darkness of the night. John knew the maid of the high priest's house, but the maid did not know that he was a disciple of Josus. John entered the courtyard through the side door, and he said to the maid, "Can I let my friend come in with me?"

"Yes. The maid nodded her head and looked at Peter in the light and said, "Isn't he a disciple of the man who has just been captured?" and Peter replied, "No, I am not, I don't know him." ”

As soon as these words came out, he suddenly felt a chill on his body, and couldn't help but walk to the fire in the middle of the courtyard. Suddenly a lot of people came in the night, mostly the servants of the priests, and the courtyard was a little chaotic.

One of the people at the fire glanced at Peter, frowned, and said, "It looks a lot like the follower of the criminal who was just caught." ”

Peter exclaimed, "No, I don't know him!" replied intently as he listened intently to the interrogation in the room.

After a while, another priest's servant looked at Peter and said, "I saw it in the Temple Square, it's the follower of the criminal!" Peter denied, "I told you, I don't know the man and I don't know what they are!"

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a rooster crowing, and the eastern sky was white, and Peter suddenly remembered the words of Jesus at dinner yesterday: "Tomorrow the rooster will not know me three times before dawn." Peter had just been pleading himself in his heart that he had come in to spy on the situation by pretending not to know Jesus, when he suddenly came to his senses and tears flowed down his eyes.

Then the door of the interrogation room opened, and Jesus was escorted out, and he saw Peter in the firelight, his eyes calm and as if with a soothing power. () Peter could no longer bear the feeling that he had failed his most respectable guide, and ran out of the courtyard and wept bitterly on a secluded street corner.

This past night, Jesus was interrogated. The process didn't go well at first.

The priests accused Jesus of many crimes, including those of Socrates or Aesop, of blasphemy, corruption, and persecution of the people's faith.

They called many people who had heard Jesus preach in the temple square to testify, but none of the testimonies proved Jesus' incrimination. Jesus could recall every word he had ever said, not even a syllable, and his answers in court were impeccable.

After the high priest Caiaphas was betrothed to inquire about himself, he asked, "Repeat the blasphemous words in public to Nachel, the carpenter." Please let me know... It is the Messiah prophesied by Elijah, the Son and the Savior of the Lifters. For the first time, Jesus looked the high priest in the eye and replied in a clear and unambiguous voice, "Yes, I am!"

The high priest exclaimed, "This is the sin! God did not send an oracle in the temple." The criminals who have been deceived by the cup always claim to be gods. ”

Jesus asked, "Has God ever sent an oracle since he knew there was a temple?" But this sentence hits the nail on the head, for Aroho has never given an oracle in the temple since David and Romon built the temple of the Aro River by destroying the temple of Amen in Retreat. And the last oracle of Amen G. was given to the priests through the great temples of Eju.

The high priest avoided Jesus' direct gaze, could not suppress the anger in his heart, and asked again in a lowered voice, "How can it be proved that it is the Messiah, who is chained and interrogated, can he save his fate?、, and Josus asked rhetorically, "Why should I prove to prove it?

This statement is so sharp that no court on earth can provide such proof, not even the high priests of the temple. Jesus said slowly, "It's not really about who I claim to be, it's about whether or not I am preaching what kind of faith I am leading. The light is right in front of you, but the people who are blinded by the door turn a blind eye. ”

The high priest again looked at Jesus, and said, "Well, I give you the opportunity to plead your case, is this the king that the people are looking forward to?, will you give each of the people of Cooleng food, lead them to establish a powerful kingdom, and free them from Maro's rule to conquer the Celestial Continent?"

If Jesus had replied "yes," he had broken the law of Maro, but the priests would not have dared to hand him over to the Maroes, for that would have angered all the Coolers. But if Jesus answered "no," he had fallen into the trap of the high priest, who denied the expected identity.

Jesus replied, "No, I am not that kind of king." The high priest's eyes lit up, and he exclaimed, "What does that bring?" Jesus replied, "The gospel, only the gospel of God." At this time, the pomp and circumstance of the interrogation room was a little chaotic, and the people shouted one after another, "He is indeed a liar!", "What a demagoguery!", "Such a man should be put to death!"

Someone else reminded: "Except for the king, only the governor of Maro has the right to pronounce the death penalty, and it is the greatest irony to let him be sentenced to death by Marlo!"

Someone else shouted: "If the people think that Jesus should be put to death, Governor Maro will not dare to resist the will of the people." Hand him over to the soldiers and march through the streets, and let those who have been bewitched ask him if he is the God-appointed deliverer, and when he recedes his halo and puts on his shackles that he cannot save himself, the people will wake up!" The high priest turned and waved his hand, and without saying a word, Josu was escorted out by the soldiers. It happened to be dawn at this time. A rooster crows in the distance.

Pilate, the governor of the Maro Empire in the city of Coolen, was woken up early in the morning by the priests who had come to ask for an audience. The priests said to the governor, "There is a man named Josus, who deceived the people and prevented them from paying taxes, and made himself king of the reelim. ”

If these accusations were true, then there was no doubt that Jesus would have been sentenced to death.

But the governor knew in his heart that these were fabricated charges, for he had already heard the name of Jesus, and had even sent his servants to the square to hear him preach.

Pilate once prayed to the gods of Olympus~ for advice on how to deal with this matter? Zeus, the father of the gods, sent down an oracle telling him not to interfere with it again as he did in the past, John the Baptist. Therefore, Governor Maro actually didn't want to meddle in his affairs, and planned to pretend to be deaf and dumb as much as possible.

But at that moment hundreds of people poured in from all over the governor's mansion, waving their fists and shouting, "Execute Jesus, crucify him!" and gather more and more crowds.

The priests had the soldiers escort Jesus to the temple square, where a group of servants dressed as human beings watched and shouted, "Jesus, may you tell us that this is the Messiah?" and Jesus replied calmly and clearly, "Yes, I am." ”

The men then asked, "Will you give each of the people of Libero food, lead them to establish a powerful kingdom, and free Maro from his rule to conquer the entire Celestial Continent?"

Jesus answered truthfully, "No, I am not that kind of king. ”

The crowd shouted again, "What did that bring us?"

Jesus looked at the crowd with compassion in his eyes, but still calmly replied, "The gospel, only the gospel of God." These were his questions and answers at the interrogation, as the priests had commanded, to be heard by all in the city. Not only were there people in the temple square who shouted and questioned Jesus in public, but there were also people who ran to all corners of the city, pretending to be high priests and Jesus to ask and answer each other, revealing the "true face" of Jesus to the people. ”

The news soon spread throughout the city, and the pilgrims, who were about to leave, gathered again. The priestly appointees mixed in with the crowd and shouted, "Everyone has seen and heard, Jesus is a liar, he only lies and deceives!" and "He has nothing to offer us, and he is not the savior prophesied by Elijah, he cannot even save himself!"

The crowd began to march around the city of Cooleng with Jesus, at first only the few hundred appointed by the priests, but then more and more people were stirred up by them, and people gathered from all directions, like a raging tide.

On the eighth day of Jesus' entry into the city of Cool, instead of preaching the gospel of God to all nations as the Son, he became a shameful criminal, engulfed in the tide of resentment, and everywhere there were voices shouting for his execution.

The human heart is so wonderful, and the fall of the Holy Son from the altar in their minds may only be a moment of thought. When Jesus stood in the square of the temple and preached and was worshipped by all the peoples, there seemed to be a divine light in him: but when he was paraded in shackles by the soldiers, he was a vile and shameful liar in any way.

The man who thought he had been deceived was shouting, "God, he deceived me, and I actually bowed down to such a man!"