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It was that final act
of unrestrained violence on Mount Gerizim
that ended Pilate's governorship in Jerusalem!
Summoned to Rome to explain his actions to the emperor Tiberias,
Pilate never returned to Judaea. He was exiled to Gaul in 36 C.E.! Considering their close
working relationship it may be no coincidence that Joseph Caiaphas was dismissed too
from hìs position as high priest
in the same year!

With Pilate
& Caiaphas gone,
there was no longer any hope of stifling the revolutionary passions of the Jews?!
By midcentury the whole of Palestine was buzzing with messianic energy! In 44 CE, another
wonder-working prophet names Theudas crowned himself messiah & brought hundreds of followers
to the Jordanriver/HAYARDEEN, promising to part the river just as Mosheh had done
at the Sea of Reeds about one thousand years earlier?
This, he claimed, would be the first step
in reclaiming the Promised Land
from ROME!

The Romans,
in response, dispatched an army
to lop off Theudas's head & scatter all his followers into the desert.
In 46 CE, two sons of Yehoedah/Judas the Galilean, Yaakov & Sjim'on, launched their own revolutionary
movement in the footsteps of their father
and grandfather; both were crucified
for their actions.

What Rome required
to keep these messianic stirrings in check was a steady,
sensible hand, someone who would respond to the grumblings of the Jews
while still maintaining peace & order in the Judean & Galilean countryside?! What Rome sent to Jerusalem instead
was a series of bumbling governors - each more vicious & greedy than the last - whose corruption & ineptitude
would transform the anger, resentment, and apocalyptic mania
that had been steadily building throughout Palestine
into a full-scale revolution.
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