Extract from the misdemeanor and criminal records of the Security Service of the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem; strictly confidential: Jesus (also known as Yeshua, later also as Prophet Issa as) the Nazarene (plow.: Ha Nozri), Christ (Greek), Christ, Christ and other versions, depending on the language; that surname was probably added later. He claimed to be from Hamala, but it has not been confirmed. Born around the beginning of the new era (dates do not agree) in Nazareth to mother Mary and father Joseph; executed on Golgotha, Jerusalem, about 33 AD not Passover (the data of astronomers are contradictory, and the calculation of time differs). Occupation: carpentry, as he himself stated; according to the records of the internal affairs authorities - unemployed and vagrant.
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He goes through the records for: vagrancy, violations of public order and peace (repeated with particular persistence), by agitating in public places without a permit to organize public gatherings against local self-government bodies embodied in the authority of the Sanhedrin and the Temple; inflicting material and non-material damage on the merchants whom he dispersed from the Temple of David with a whip; unauthorized performance of miracles, namely: turning water into wine contrary to monopoly regulations and without paying excise and taxes (case in Cana of Galilee); practicing psychiatric therapy without appropriate schooling and membership in the Association of Psychotherapists of Judea, Samaria and Galilee (the case of the Gadarene pigs and the hysterical girl); practicing ophthalmology and otorhinolaryngology without appropriate schooling and without membership in appropriate medical chambers (the case of the mute who spoke and the blind who saw); practicing delayed resuscitation without appropriate schooling and without membership in the appropriate medical chamber (the case of the late Lazar); practicing infectious diseases without proper education and without membership in the Association of Infectious Diseases of Judea, Samaria and Galilee (healing ten lepers); performing catering services without a permit and without sanitary inspection (fed five thousand people with three fish); violation of regulations on public transport on waterways (walked on water and saved passengers of the scaffolding from accidents), etc. For all these offenses there are reports from the respective professional associations, craft guilds and state inspections.
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Sectarian activity and hostile propaganda: contrary to the teachings of the recognized traditional (and only) faith, contrary to the delicate political circumstances in which Israel was at the time of the commission of crimes and misdemeanors (less than independence, more than autonomy), Jesus of Nazareth carried out several acts of hostile propaganda and spreading sectarian heresy. He slandered the Sadducees, the Pharisees, and even the scribes! He claimed that "the Temple of Jerusalem will be destroyed" and that "the Temple of the new faith will spring up" in its place; he preached non-observance of the Sabbath under demagogic pretexts; he presented himself as the Messiah and messenger of God; he challenged the earthly authority of the Tetrarch and - even more terrible - the emperor Tiberius, against the interests of Israel and to the detriment of good neighborly relations with Rome. He tried to found a sect based on the demagogic theory of "equality of all men" and "love of fellow man" and thus won the sympathy and support of fukara, marginal elements, foreign mercenaries and domestic traitors. Because of all that, he was deprived of his freedom during the dinner with the accomplices, and thanks to the action of an undercover investigator inserted, as well as an intelligence worker specially inserted into the group. During the intervention, there was resistance, during which one of the members of the Service lost his ear. The accomplices ran away, on which occasion there was a violation of public morals, because one of them left his clothes in the hands of the police and ran away.
Jesus of Nazareth was handed over to the competent authorities of the Temple and the Sanhedrin, who immediately condemned him to death, already annoyed enough by the outcome of the public debates they had with him, from which he emerged more and more popular with the people. Due to the division of power, he was taken to the High Representative of Rome and the Procurator of Judea to confirm the verdict, but the evidentiary material seemed insufficient to him, and the convict's defense was solid, so he hesitated. Pressed by the political circumstances and his delicate position in Jerusalem, the procurator Pontius Pilate very willingly confirmed the sentence of Jesus of Nazareth and the two robbers, Dismas and Hestas, and - at the express request, not to mention open blackmail - of the Sanhedrin, he also pardoned the condemned road robber to death Var Ravana (better known as Barabbas). The death sentence was carried out on Golgotha on the 14th day of the month of Nisan (it would later go down in history as Good Friday).
What exactly happened on the 16th of Nisan remains unclear. Operatives of the Service, discreetly sent to check the rumors circulating in Moabite and around Golgotha, found the empty tomb of Jesus of Nazareth (the two remaining tombs were not disturbed). The theft of the corpse was suspected, but the corpse was not found. Exalted women found nearby (mother Mary and friend Mary Magdalene who goes through the records along the lines of prostitution) claimed that the Nazarene had risen from the dead and ascended to heaven, "to his Father," alluding to Him Whose Name is not spoken.
The undercover investigator, Yehuda of Kiriath (Judas Iscariot), was found dead in the Olive Garden of Gethsemane on the night of Nisan 16-17, with stab wounds from a cold weapon, but the story was circulated that he had hanged himself. That story has spread so much that our assessment is that it is better not to challenge it, and the office of the High Representative agrees with that.
The Service's assessment is that this incident could result in an unnecessary complication of the already complex political and security situation, so it is necessary to continue operational work in the field along the lines of sectarian-type religious extremism.
Signature: Afranius, 18 Nisan. Copies: To the Procurator, Sanhedrin, Archives.
Jesus Christ of Nazareth has been our contemporary for almost 2000 years; not from birth, but from his death at the age of 33 aetatis suae. And not only that: Jesus will remain our contemporary until the Last Judgment, i.e. the end of everything (Muslims say: Belaya), until the Last Information Interview - whenever it takes place. In a million years or tomorrow (as warned by Jehovah's Witnesses who keep watch, lest they be caught unprepared). Why and how? Because Jesus has been with us in a very conspicuous way for two millennia; because there are two billion Christians in the world of various denominations, but of the same faith, which Koštunica failed to notice when he congratulated Easter this year only to the Orthodox, monks and clergy, only to the SPC. By the way: Stalin once asked: "How many divisions does that Pope have?"; later it turned out that there were many of them.
Jesus of Nazareth was a vagabond, a vagabond, a poor man - and as such a messenger of God, precisely because of this; in the eyes of the orderly and experienced Roman authorities in the management of distant countries, the face was disruptive and superfluous. In order to understand its significance at that given moment, we need to return to its environment and circumstances. The land of Israel, Isaac and Abraham was under the occupation of Rome; they had local self-government under the control of the High Representative of the Empire, which was not easy. The last thing he needed was another popular prophet preaching - of all things! - love for neighbors and even for enemies, turning the other cheek, love, in a word, complete and unlimited. Truth be told, that idea, so exotic and new, could and probably did appeal to one Pontius Pilate. The then high officials of Tiberius' empire had to be stoic, given the political circumstances: people educated in Greek culture and philosophy and bound by the moral obligation to serve the Empire had to find a philosophical basis and support for themselves; there was no better than stoic. Now imagine an experienced and educated Roman gentleman who comes to serve in the Levantine chaos of Jerusalem, among quarrelsome and overzealous local officials, a series of theological scumbags with whom there is no end. And the situation is complex, there are rebellions every hour, dissatisfaction is simmering, Jerusalem is shaking and wavering. Jesus and Pilate emerge from that tense and nervous atmosphere. Pilate - with the instinct of an experienced administrator - realizes that it is better to let Jesus roam around the squares and synagogues, at least drive the merchants out of the temple with a whip. The local government, however, shaken in the foundations of its theocracy, cannot bear Jesus just as instinctively. He undermines them where they are thinnest. At the same time, he also performs miracles, so that in the end he himself will be resurrected. Well, that was the context.
And what did Jesus preach that makes him our contemporary from the beginning to the end of our time? Nothing special and that's exactly why it's so great and important: love, patience, truth and justice. Just that. First, he separated the church from the state, the material from the spiritual, once and for all, until the end of existence. He showed them a Roman coin and said, "Whose face is this on the coin?" Caesar's." So: Caesar's to Caesar, and God's to God, period, as the gentle and wise Mirko Đorđević constantly reminds us. All people are good, says Jesus, although some have strayed from that path, and they too can return - only if we make an effort to take care of our neighbors. Jesus established what had not existed before him: mutual independence and the desirable balance of inner spiritual freedom and the outer material world. Like Socrates, Jesus asks, “Should I explain to you the difference between good and evil?” Your soul will tell you the difference, Jesus says. Trust in the inherent goodness of the human soul is the essence of Christianity, the science of Jesus.
Well, now: science is important here, not Jesus. Jesus did his job honestly when he needed to. A Jewish Hasidic sage from the 33th century, the Baal Shem Tov (and all mystics recognize each other), interprets God's message as follows: "They have lost Me - that is, they have stopped knowing Me because that is not possible, but how lucky is it that they have lost Me seeking Me and sticking to My teaching." Even Jesus would not have said otherwise: let me go, I have done my work, it is better that you stick to My teaching. And his teaching is simple, far simpler than the later interpretations that have fallen on our ears during these two millennia: it is the teaching of love, forgiveness and patience that conquers all. Jesus shows us immediately and now: leave the dead to bury the dead and follow me; do good also on the Sabbath; let the Sadducees, Pharisees and scribes go, they just rip the skin off the back of the poor anyway. Such a terrible blow to an established "traditional" religious community had never been dealt from such a high place; to this day that blow hurts, because it is justified and just. Not that it helped much in practice: in the name of Jesus, many things were done that disgusted him in the heavens; a man would say that it was easier for him in XNUMX years of earthly life, including Calvary, than in two millennia of heaven. But his teaching remained our only consolation and that is why we will always, ad infinite, i ninja i intimate i na centuries century, Jesus to be our contemporary. His was to show us the right path; everything else is ours; and what else will freedom of choice do for us?
For centuries, by the way, for reasons of theological and moral-educational entertainment, the question has been raised: what would happen if Jesus suddenly appeared among us now? The question is silly, but also irresistible. First: we should know whether Jesus would appear as the King of Heaven with a sword, as he was able to threaten in his rather politically daring allegories that cost him dearly - or as the same New Testament vagabond, naked and unemployed carpenter who does miracles when he feels like it? Let's take the second variant as more fun (the first one has to wait until the end of the world anyway): there would immediately be a certain Levi Matej, a retired customs official, like the first one, an intelligence worker (but more likely, considering that even in decadent Judea there were no Brazika Kertes ), to follow him and falsely write down everything that the Man did not say. Everything would immediately arrive where it should be, and then a problem would arise: what to do with him now? If he started with miracles, it would greatly complicate the already complex security situation: for someone to untie the tongue of Bracica Cortes; for someone to bring Kosto Čavoški to his senses; that someone make Brana Crnčević see, and Duća Spasojević and Kum Luković come back to life, so that they are tried separately? The Holy Matera Serbian Orthodox Church would find itself in a big predicament: Jesus would first ask them who Saint Sava is, and then who Nicholas, Justin, Filaret and Pachomius are... The explanation would take a long time, and the outcome would be, to put it mildly, uncertain. "Again the Sadducees, Pharisees and scribes; My Father, why have you forsaken me?" (Elli, Elli, lama Saturday?) Maybe the second variant is better: break like pottery? (Psalms) But, that is not characteristic of Jesus and it is not for us to hope - no matter how much our soul would rejoice in its lostness.
Most likely, that certain Luković from the MUP, an expert on "sects", would have intervened and written an official note on the topic of "The Appearance of the False Messiah"; he would link it to the Vatican (which would hardly wait for someone else to declare it, not them), the Comintern and the CIA. Then Public Security would get involved in the sense of "public gatherings without a permit" and the Ministry of Religion in a similar sense (it is not registered as a "traditional religious community"); in the case of miracles, the Ministry of Health would intervene (along the lines of psychiatric, ophthalmological, otorhinolaryngological and cardiovascular - depending on whether Jesus restored someone's mind, sight, speech or life), the Ministry of Agriculture (in the likely case of turning one of our table wines into real wine) and the Ministry of Finance (taxes and excises on alcohol). The most that Jesus could hope for here and among us is an interview with the two Cece in "Sand", but we're the only ones listening anyway. He is free to appear.
