I will enter one by one, episodes of the story of Jesus’ last week in Jerusalem. I have taken them from my book Jesus the God App. The reason for this is few people stop to ask a critcal questions about a story we hear every year. 1) Why did the authorities want Jesus dead? surely not because of his teaching or his healing? 2)  Who wanted him dead? It has become fashionable to believe Pilate was the villain. 3) What was Jesus’ agenda? He had a plan, what went wrong or maybe not. 4)  Where was God in all of this?  5)  What was the plan? It worked very well and managed to remove Jesus within a few hours instead of drawn out proceedings required by Jewish law.

To help tell the story I invented a diary kept by Annas, the controlling figure behind the High  Priest, Caiaphas. The diary is fiction, but Annas is not. He was so bad as High Priest 15 or so years or so before Caiaphas, that the Roman Governor Gatos deposed him. He was for years a calculating power behind the Temple heirarchy as he put his sons on the High Priest’s throne one by one, and finally had Caiaphas appointed. Control of the Temple was his famil’s business they had the monopoly of all functions from sacrices to tourist industry. Into this power vortex Jesus intruded.