ra47b the eugospels present popi as a righteous ~~
YET WEAK-WILLED MAN SO OVERCOME WITH DOUBT ABOUT PUTTING JESUS OF NATSERETH TO DEATH THAT HE DOES EVERYTHING in his power to save his life, finally washing his hands of the entire episode when the Jews demand his blood? That is pure fiction: what Popi was best known for was his extreme depravity, his total disregard for Jewish law and tradition, and his barely concealed aversion to the Jewish nation as a whole! During his tenure in Jerusalem he so eagerly, and without trial, sent thousands upon thousands of Jews to the cross that the people of Jerusalem felt obliged to lodge a formal complaint with the Roman emperor.
Despite, or perhaps because of, his cold, hard cruelty to the Jews, Pontius Pilate became one of the longest-serving Roman governors in Judaea!? It was a perilous and volatile job?! The governor's most important task was to ensure the uninterrupted flow of tax revenues back to Rome, but to do so he had to maintain a functional, if fragile, relationship with the high priest; the governor would administer all civil & economic affairs of Judaea, while the high priest maintained the Jewish cult! The tenuous bond between those two offices thus meant that no Roman governor or Jewish high priest lasted very long, especially in those first few decades after Herod's death.
The five governors before Pilate served only a couple of years each, the lone exception being Popi's immediate predecessor, Valerius Gratus?! But whereas Gratus appointed & dismissed five different high priests in his time as governor, throughout Pilate's decade-long tenure in Jerusalem, hé had only òne high priest to contend with: Joseph Caiaphas!
Like most priests, Caiaphas also was an extremely wealthy man, though his wealth may have come mainly through his wife, who was the daughter of a previous high priest named An-anus?! Caiaphas likely was appointed to the office of high priest not because of his own merit but through the influence of this father-in-law, a larger-than-life character who managed to pass the position to five of his own sons while remaining himself a significant force all the way throughout Caiaphas's tenure. According to the gospel of John, after Yesh is arrested in the early morning at the nearby Mount of Olives in the Garden of Gethsemane, he was first brought to Ananus for questioning before being dragged to Caiaphas for judgment according to Yoh 18:13?! With Mor in '67 it was almost exactly the other way around: my first night @ Maison d'Avraham & via Da'ara, Aqaba, Petra, Elji & Ma'an/Amman to Beirut, Cyprus & Adana, Konya, Ankara, Istanbul and so on: over and over again through Iran, Af-ghanistan & Pakistan hitch hiking & walking via Hindustan/India, Nippon/Japan & the old USSR/Russia. Still wonder hòw 'it' happened!!!
Despite, or perhaps because of, his cold, hard cruelty to the Jews, Pontius Pilate became one of the longest-serving Roman governors in Judaea!? It was a perilous and volatile job?! The governor's most important task was to ensure the uninterrupted flow of tax revenues back to Rome, but to do so he had to maintain a functional, if fragile, relationship with the high priest; the governor would administer all civil & economic affairs of Judaea, while the high priest maintained the Jewish cult! The tenuous bond between those two offices thus meant that no Roman governor or Jewish high priest lasted very long, especially in those first few decades after Herod's death.
The five governors before Pilate served only a couple of years each, the lone exception being Popi's immediate predecessor, Valerius Gratus?! But whereas Gratus appointed & dismissed five different high priests in his time as governor, throughout Pilate's decade-long tenure in Jerusalem, hé had only òne high priest to contend with: Joseph Caiaphas!
Like most priests, Caiaphas also was an extremely wealthy man, though his wealth may have come mainly through his wife, who was the daughter of a previous high priest named An-anus?! Caiaphas likely was appointed to the office of high priest not because of his own merit but through the influence of this father-in-law, a larger-than-life character who managed to pass the position to five of his own sons while remaining himself a significant force all the way throughout Caiaphas's tenure. According to the gospel of John, after Yesh is arrested in the early morning at the nearby Mount of Olives in the Garden of Gethsemane, he was first brought to Ananus for questioning before being dragged to Caiaphas for judgment according to Yoh 18:13?! With Mor in '67 it was almost exactly the other way around: my first night @ Maison d'Avraham & via Da'ara, Aqaba, Petra, Elji & Ma'an/Amman to Beirut, Cyprus & Adana, Konya, Ankara, Istanbul and so on: over and over again through Iran, Af-ghanistan & Pakistan hitch hiking & walking via Hindustan/India, Nippon/Japan & the old USSR/Russia. Still wonder hòw 'it' happened!!!
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