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00:30What is that supposed to mean?
00:40Well, who is and who isn't?
00:46I have earnestly desired to eat this meal with you before I suffer.
00:51This is our last Passover together on this earth before we celebrate it again when all is fulfilled in the new kingdom.
01:00I would ask how long that will be.
01:07But I know the answer.
01:09You will understand.
01:12But first...
01:14Blessed are you, Lord our God, King of the universe, who brings forth bread from the earth.
01:33Amen.
01:34Amen.
01:47Normally, this bread is to remember and celebrate our redemption.
01:52From Egypt into the promised land.
01:57From slavery into freedom.
02:02Tonight, we celebrate your redemption from sin because of me.
02:08Take and eat it.
02:19This is my body, which is given for you.
02:25Do this in remembrance of me.
02:28Blessed are you, Lord our God, King of the universe, who creates the fruit of the vine.
02:53Amen.
02:54Amen.
02:59Normally, the wine allows us to remember and celebrate the blood of the Lamb spread on the doorposts of our ancestors.
03:06But tonight, likewise, this is my blood of the new covenant, shed for you and for many, for the forgiveness of sins.
03:24Drink it, all of you, in remembrance of me.
03:29Amen.
03:29Amen.
03:29Amen.
03:29Amen.
03:29Amen.
03:29Amen.
03:29Amen.
03:29Amen.
03:36I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine dresser.
03:55Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away.
03:59And every branch that does bear fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
04:09Abide in me, and I in you.
04:14As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.
04:24I am the vine, and you are the branches.
04:32Whoever abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit.
04:39For apart from me, you can do nothing.
04:44If anyone does not abide in me, he is thrown away like a branch and withers.
04:50And the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned.
04:58If you abide in me, and my words in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done.
05:09By this, my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit, and so prove to be my disciples.
05:17As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you.
05:27Abide in my love.
05:28These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
05:58Rabbi, what are you smiling at?
06:14It's nothing, it's just that, uh...
06:21It's nothing, no, it's just that, uh...
06:29Rabbi...
06:34Earlier, I may have washed some of your feet.
06:50But not all of you are clean.
06:53What are you saying?
06:58The scripture has now been fulfilled.
07:00He who has eaten my bread
07:06has lifted his heel against me.
07:11What?
07:16Truly, I say to you,
07:18one of you will betray me.
07:25Someone at this very table.
07:27Someone in this room?
07:28Who?
07:36One of you brothers?
07:39Who?
07:40Tell us who,
07:42and we will bind him,
07:43and gag him,
07:44and throw him in the pit,
07:45so he can't do it.
07:50The Son of Man goes as it is written of him.
07:53But woe to that man
07:57by whom the Son of Man has betrayed.
08:00It would have been better for him
08:02if he had never been born.
08:05Just say who it is,
08:08and we'll make sure that
08:09man wishes he'd never been born.
08:12I need a moment.
08:28I need a moment.
08:28What?
08:50What's happening?
08:52What? Andrew.
09:22No trouble with a mess you've been, rock on the water, rock on the water, rock on the water, rock on the water, rock on the water.
09:52And according to our Treasurer report, the additional days needed to complete the columns in that section of Solomon's Porch will result in a 14% increase over the original cost estimate.
10:13The Temple Renovation Committee unanimously approved the spending, although I'm sure to the surprise of none of you, Rabban Ozem required some convincing.
10:27All right, all right. From what I understand, there is no additional business for today. This meeting is adjourned.
10:33Rabbi Nicodemus, welcome back. I trust your time was fruitful.
10:44Oh, yes, yes. Good to be back, Ozem.
10:47Did the students in Bethel show enough appreciation for the teacher of teachers?
10:55Yes, they were. They were lovely, but I'm sure they were glad to be rid of me.
11:01I'll see you in the morning for the committee meeting, yes?
11:05Yes. Yes, of course.
11:07It should be well.
11:13Rabbi Nicodemus, welcome back.
11:16Thank you. It's good to be back.
11:19I understand congratulations are in order.
11:23I'm sorry I wasn't here to officially welcome you.
11:26It's an honor to be part of it. Thank you.
11:28Yes, well.
11:36Shalom, shalom.
11:37Shalom, shalom.
11:38I've filled your quarters in less than an hour, Rabbi Nicodemus, so I have to stop by the Education and Labor Committee meeting first.
11:44I'll talk to you soon.
11:45Yes.
11:49And it's good to see you again.
11:52Good to see you.
11:53The vote to approve the Sabbath law adjustment proposal was actually less contentious than I expected.
12:02You would have been surprised at the cooperation of some of our Sadducean friends, even Gidera.
12:13Let me see. What else?
12:15Just a highlight, Sepadai?
12:17Understood.
12:18Agricultural and Food Committee are still working on their Jatapata analysis.
12:23The Ritual Purity Committee has decided that...
12:27All right, you don't need an update on that. Let me see.
12:32I will say, I saw you talking to Shmuel today.
12:36His inauguration day was quite something.
12:39Shmai gave the welcome speech, and you really sang his praises,
12:43giving him credit for some of the events leading to the death of the Baptizer from Galilee.
12:48Now, President Shmuel raised a ruckus about that whole business.
12:52Death?
12:52Of who?
12:54The Baptizer?
12:56John Barr Zechariah. You know, the one who Herod had in prison.
12:59Of course I know who he is. I encountered him directly in Capernaum.
13:04He's dead?
13:05Beheaded by Herod's court.
13:07It was a whole sordid tale. You haven't heard?
13:11No.
13:11Well, how did you encounter him?
13:14And did he call you a viper, too?
13:16No, no, not quite.
13:18But he was certainly a character.
13:22I visited him in prison there.
13:25Beheaded?
13:26That was the story.
13:28He had a cousin in Capernaum.
13:31A teacher who was amassing a following, doing signs and wonders?
13:36Yes, Jesus Bar Joseph.
13:39You know the name?
13:39Yes, he was the focus of the larger discussion.
13:43Caiaphas ended up giving a whole speech about him.
13:46Caiaphas?
13:47How did this get to Caiaphas?
13:49He's a rabbi all the way in Capernaum.
13:51Your Bethel trip was too long.
13:53Rabbi, Jesus has been traveling all over, and these so-called signs and wonders you mentioned have bedeviled the people.
14:02He's the most popular messiah claimant in a while.
14:06Shmuel had a whole damning report about him.
14:08Caiaphas had issued an edict empowering district leaders to bring him in for questioning for false prophecy, blasphemy, a litany of charges.
14:16I can't believe you missed all this.
14:18You met him?
14:18That's all for today, Zebediah.
14:22Thank you for your report.
14:24I'll see you in the morning.
14:27Of course.
14:27Is everything all right?
14:28Yes, yes, it's just been a long day.
14:35Give Rebecca my regards.
14:38And you the same to Zahara.
14:39We'll have to have dinner soon.
14:41Yes, yes, I'll have Matthias set it up.
14:44Shalom, shalom.
14:44Shalom, shalom.
14:48Matthias?
14:50Yes, rabbi?
14:51I want you to drop everything you're doing and listen to me carefully.
14:55I have an assignment for you.
14:56Mary of Magdala.
15:01Have you been looking for me?
15:03Yes.
15:04Teacher, it's you.
15:05Please, keep your voice down.
15:08Not everyone in this house is awake.
15:10Why so secretive?
15:12Why didn't your men just tell me they were with you?
15:14I am so sorry, but we had no choice.
15:16I don't know what is in your head at the moment.
15:20How zealous you and the others are and what you will say and to whom.
15:24You've not been discreet lately and I need to be.
15:26Discreet, you're in the Sanhedrin.
15:29Where is this place?
15:30This is my home, but you don't need to know where.
15:33This city is crawling with spies, agents and informers.
15:36I don't know why you've been so difficult to reach.
15:38I've really needed your help.
15:40Where have you been?
15:41Mary, it is very dangerous what you are doing.
15:44You were wise not to ask for me by name, but it was clear to us what you were up to.
15:50Who is us?
15:51You've had spies.
15:52Not spies, just keeping track.
15:55And your behavior could well have accelerated his demise.
15:59Accelerated?
16:00No, no.
16:00You're getting bad information.
16:03We've been on the run from the moment we arrived.
16:06Jesus has not passed up a single opportunity to make an enemy.
16:09I'm curious to know why you think that is.
16:12I'm sorry?
16:13Why is he doing this?
16:14Why is he systematically turning allies into enemies?
16:18You know him?
16:20You've seen him challenge authority before?
16:22He won't shrink just because...
16:23Mary, this is something more.
16:25I will read you his own words.
16:28How?
16:28My watchman was observing and taking notes.
16:32This from just two days ago, you know, when he upended the marketplace and the temple.
16:38Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you are like whitewashed tombs who outwardly
16:48appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and uncleanness.
16:54So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within are full of hypocrisy and
17:03lawlessness.
17:05Doesn't exactly sound like an invitation to join him, does it?
17:08How long have you been tracking him?
17:11Long enough.
17:12I don't understand.
17:13You've seen us.
17:15You've been watching all of us?
17:18Tell me why I shouldn't be very uncomfortable with all of this.
17:21He was only doing what I asked him to do.
17:23I've not seen Jesus since Capernaum, but when news reached Jerusalem that he was claiming
17:28to be the Christ, I had to.
17:31You had to what, spy?
17:32Mary, I brought you here under duress, so I'm trying to be patient with your loose words.
17:39But you need to listen.
17:41I teach Torah and the foundations of our faith to students all over Israel.
17:46Now, please try to understand the immense responsibility for our people that I feel on my shoulders from
17:53Adonai himself.
17:55Every year, from every region, someone comes along claiming to be the Messiah and trying
18:01to sway our people and mislead them.
18:04Now, most of them are crushed for their false prophecy, and we never even hear of them.
18:08But when someone like Jesus achieves this level of influence over these many people, performing
18:15these kinds of signs and wonders, all the while claiming to be the Christ and asserting
18:21his authority over the law and leaders of our people, I have a sacred duty to prove him wrong.
18:30And what did you see?
18:33What did he report to you?
18:35You met him yourself.
18:36I helped arrange it.
18:39I'm sure you saw who he is as well.
18:42What did he see?
18:47He saw the eyes of the blind opened, the ears of the deaf unstopped, the lame man leaping
18:53like, like a deer, and the tongue of the mutants seeking for joy.
19:01I say.
19:02The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light.
19:07Those that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them a light has shined.
19:13I love that one.
19:14But you, O Bethlehem, too little to be among the clan of Judah.
19:18From you shall come forth for me, one who is to be ruler of Israel.
19:24One who's coming forth is from of old.
19:28From ancient days.
19:33Do you now know he is the one who fulfills these prophecies?
19:36I prayed he wouldn't.
19:38I needed him to be a fraud.
19:41But I've seen too much.
19:43I know the feeling.
19:45And you saw Lazarus.
19:46So why haven't you told this to the others?
19:55Why have you been absent?
19:57I've been told you've not been seen in Sanhedrin at all lately.
20:00Apart from my present condition, there is the question of trying to get anything done in
20:06the Sanhedrin, let alone the intricacies of money and politics and fear that guide most
20:12of them and govern their decisions.
20:14And when it comes to false prophecy, that is a wall I cannot climb.
20:20I've been looking for you because he needs your help.
20:24Why have you been wanting to talk to me if not to help?
20:27To warn you and for you to warn him that he's in danger.
20:32A message received.
20:33But for whatever reason, he's clearly not running from that danger.
20:41So now I'm asking you to help eliminate it.
20:46Your wisdom and strength led you to pursue Jesus in Capernaum when your colleagues wouldn't
20:51have ever considered it.
20:53I don't know what happened after that that's between you and him, but I know you know the
21:00truth, and I'm asking you to do anything you can.
21:08Mary, please try to...
21:11Please!
21:15Please.
21:30Nicodemus, there is something else I wanted to say to you.
21:44For what?
21:47For trying.
21:50That day the Romans brought you to my place in the Red Quarter.
21:55It must have been very uncomfortable for you.
21:58And scary for anyone.
22:00I'm so grateful you at least made the attempt.
22:06I should have told you that the day we spoke in the market.
22:11And I know coming to the Red Quarter didn't initially turn out the way you had hoped.
22:20Look.
22:22What it led to.
22:26You're welcome.
22:27But I had nothing to do with who you are today.
22:32Your change
22:33is just as convincing as the prophecies of who he is.
22:40I don't know what else I can do, but I will search
22:42Torah.
22:43Perhaps
22:44the scriptures will reveal to us
22:46what is in store for him.
22:48Nicodemus.
23:03Zohara.
23:05I'm sorry.
23:05I didn't mean to disturb you.
23:06Niko.
23:08You don't have to speak loudly for me to be stirred by your spirit.
23:11Like I have been for months.
23:14I've been studying in earnest.
23:16There are things about my position that...
23:17Come in here.
23:18Zohara, you don't understand...
23:20Come.
23:31I have been with you for 60 years.
23:34Don't try to educate me on your position
23:36as though I'm the teenager I was when we married.
23:39You can prepare for your lectures in your sleep.
23:43You don't need this level of research.
23:45You haven't finished a meal in weeks without abandoning the table.
23:49And me.
23:50For these scrolls.
23:52You're losing weight.
23:54You can barely hold yourself up since Matthias burst in a week ago,
23:58whispering frantically.
23:59I am not deaf and blind, Niko.
24:06We have to talk.
24:09We will.
24:10I...
24:10I just...
24:14can't...
24:16yet.
24:18I'm sorry.
24:25Please, sit down.
24:27Can we serve you something?
24:29We are not the same.
24:31I don't know what Shmuel has told you,
24:33but you should know now
24:35that you and I are not the same.
24:38That's certainly the case.
24:39I'm the anointed high priest of Israel
24:41who represents the nation before God,
24:45the only human on earth allowed to enter the Holy of Holies.
24:49And you, on the other hand, are...
24:52Helping to save your people.
24:56I assure you,
24:57I've not been brought here under false pretenses.
25:00I can deliver him to you.
25:03But you must know something.
25:06I do believe that Jesus is most likely the Messiah.
25:09Why?
25:10Why what?
25:14Why do you believe that?
25:19I've seen too much.
25:20Then why are you doing this?
25:26I suppose I have not seen enough.
25:28Ah, hence the most likely.
25:33Hopefully, we'll get to see it this week.
25:36If, when you take him into custody,
25:38he effortlessly destroys his captors,
25:41leads us to victory over Rome,
25:42and takes his rightful place on the throne of David,
25:46then I'll be celebrating with the rest of our people.
25:50You are utterly out of your depth.
25:55I disagree.
25:56Marcus,
25:57Samoel,
25:58will you give us the room?
25:59I do not appreciate being spoken to in such a manner, young man.
26:12Well, if you change your mind about needing his whereabouts,
26:14just let me know.
26:15Sit down!
26:17We are not finished.
26:20This isn't complicated, Your Honor.
26:32You need information.
26:34And I'm the only one capable and willing to give it to you.
26:44All we have to agree on is a price.
26:5020 pieces of silver.
26:58Don't insult me.
27:0140.
27:0225.
27:0338.
27:0830 pieces of silver.
27:12Final offer.
27:14The equivalent of four months' wages.
27:20That is the price of a slave.
27:24And I will not live like one while I'm looking for a new job.
27:2735.
27:2830 pieces of silver.
27:31Is my final offer.
27:33And a slave is about what Jesus is worth to me now.
27:37You have no leverage, Judas.
27:41I'm your only buyer.
27:43And I'm your only seller.
27:44The Temple Guard have sophisticated methods of extracting information.
27:53If you'd like.
27:56Or you can just take the money.
28:05I have one condition.
28:07I'm listening.
28:08I will provide an opportunity for you to arrest him only in the absence of a crowd.
28:15He is more powerful than you, and you know it.
28:19The people will riot.
28:20If we do this stealthily, we can avoid an uprising.
28:26Retribution from Rome.
28:27And a ruined Passover holiday.
28:30I thought you said if he's arrested, he'll use his divine powers to strike down his adversaries.
28:37Could be the best Passover of all, wouldn't it?
28:40If he is who he says he is.
28:44If he's not.
28:44Thirty pieces of silver will be of no use to me when Pilate brutalizes us for disturbing the peace and inciting a revolt.
28:58I have a condition as well.
29:03You have 24 hours to deliver him over to us.
29:09Time is of the essence.
29:10Deal.
29:2024 hours.
29:22You're an only son.
29:25I'm sorry?
29:26You're an only son of an only son, and he's passed away.
29:32I was given all your information, Judas.
29:34You're the last of the Iscariots.
29:40Yes.
29:40Unless you survive all this and have a son, this could be your best chance for your family name to be remembered.
29:52Don't look so downtrodden.
29:53This is an opportunity.
29:57Now, go.
29:59Deliver on your promise.
30:01You have no right to hold me here without explanation.
30:28What crimes have I committed?
30:30I have the right to speak to my legal representative.
30:33My friend, those rights are granted to citizens of the Roman Empire, of which you decidedly are not.
30:42Who are you?
30:43You arrived from the north three days ago, bringing with you a small militia of malcontents.
31:07You have since grown in numbers, amassed weapons, sharpened resentments, and convened a veritable serpent's den of aggressors, who remind me of zealots, but lack sophistication and training.
31:23The zealots, you know, they're a pain, but they have a precision and a clarity of purpose that makes them in some ways predictable.
31:33They at least know what they're doing, and therefore so do we.
31:39But you are not precise.
31:41You are reckless and messy and disorganized.
31:46It was all too easy to find you out, to get in here and put you in that chair.
31:50So, it's my understanding the Jews have made a pilgrimage to this city to observe a solemn holiday of remembrance.
32:00Hmm?
32:01I might be getting that wrong.
32:02But from what I can tell, there's only one person acting up around here this week.
32:10Someone about whom so many people have such intense feelings and opinions, both good and bad.
32:18He's the only figure at the moment toward whom a man like you could stir up so much animosity.
32:28Tell me something, Kaffney.
32:29Hi, you.
32:34Everybody's got an opinion about Jesus.
32:36So, what about yours led to all this?
32:43You're not a holy man.
32:48Acus be praised.
32:50You own land and wine country.
32:55He killed my daughter.
32:56If Jesus the Nazarene had committed murder, believe me, I'd know about it.
33:02How?
33:04You're not God.
33:05Let's leave God out of this.
33:07Honestly, I find the topic exhausting.
33:09What more do you want to know?
33:14All right.
33:16I'll bite.
33:16Fine.
33:17How'd he kill your daughter?
33:18He seduced her.
33:19He really doesn't strike me as the romantic type.
33:21Not romantically.
33:23Spiritually.
33:23For the God's sake, what did I just say about God?
33:25He performed a magic trick at a wedding that made her so grateful and awed and entranced that she became more loyal to him than me.
33:39Hades and sticks.
33:41That's the pettiest thing I've ever heard.
33:42She left a promising career as a wine vintner to join his pathetic roving band, wayfaring around the upper Galilee, whipping crowds into frenzies over his teachings and sorceries.
33:56Until, until, until one of those crowds devolved into a stampede and she was run through with a sword.
34:10By whom?
34:13The Roman praetor of Capernaum.
34:15Uh-huh.
34:21So a Roman praetor killed your daughter, not Jesus.
34:23You are dissembling, Kaffney.
34:24She would never have been near Capernaum or anything resembling that situation if not for him.
34:30And he has not been held accountable.
34:32She had free will, didn't she?
34:34No one was forcing her to travel around with this Jesus, were they?
34:37One of Jesus' other followers, a former employee of mine, beguiled her with his youthful charm and lured her into the notion of marriage without my consent.
34:47I thought it didn't work that way with you people.
34:48There are loopholes.
34:51The law is complicated.
34:52Did your daughter ever say anything to you about avenging her death if something were to happen to her?
34:57It's what any father would do.
34:58Why haven't you attempted vengeance against the Roman praetor?
35:00He was fired and sent away.
35:03Hanged for all I know.
35:07Why are you looking at me like that?
35:11Oh, I don't know.
35:12Seems like you're under the impression that you could have done something more to prevent this.
35:17To protect your daughter, to save her.
35:20And instead of facing your guilt like a man, or dealing with your grief, you've decided to look for someone to blame.
35:28You don't know me.
35:30You don't know what's in my heart.
35:31You can't get directly to the praetor who did the deed.
35:33So now, you've moved on to, frankly, an easy target.
35:40He's not an easy target.
35:42Let's find out.
35:43What?
35:44I don't have any children.
35:45But the way you've decided to make your daughter's untimely death all about yourself repulses me.
35:52However, your murderous commitment to alleviating your guilty conscience may prove useful to my purposes.
36:04What purposes?
36:06I have a proposal for you, Kofni.
36:11Instead of arresting you for unlawful assembly, possession of illegal weapons, incitement to violence, conspiracy to commit murder, and possibly insurrection, to name only a few,
36:23I will supply you with information regarding Jesus' whereabouts.
36:27What has he done to you?
36:30Pay attention, please.
36:32The only thing that's required to keep you out of jail, or worse, is that you continue to spread your venom to anyone who listen.
36:42Let me explain this to you in a way you might understand.
36:46Keep doing what you're doing.
36:47Try to turn the tide of public opinion against Jesus, and quid pro quo.
36:59Right.
37:00In exchange, I'll keep holes out of your hands and feet.
37:06Holes.
37:09We're finished here.
37:13So what now?
37:15Now?
37:17We wait.
37:19For what?
37:23For the light of day.
37:47Come on.
37:55Come on.
37:55Come on.
38:03Come on.
38:05The people who walked in darkness have seen the great light.
38:27Those who dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, upon them a light has shined.
38:47Thank you for that.
38:52The class over begins in eight hours.
39:10One last thorough search.
39:12There cannot be even a single speck of leaven anywhere in the house.
39:17Tova, I want you to boil water and fire up the ovens to heat the surfaces of the kitchen
39:22and kill any remaining hametz.
39:24Yes, Marcus.
39:25Then, Shechem Hala, I want you to look for crumbs under every cushion.
39:29Search every pocket of every robe in the closet.
39:32Pour boiling water over every platter, cup, utensil, dish or a knife that has even come
39:39close to a piece of bread in the last year.
39:42Governor?
39:43Can I help you, sir?
39:45What do you intend to do with Jesus of Nazareth?
39:49The hug's a mare to you too, Pontius.
39:52I don't observe this holiday.
39:54No kidding.
39:55I am maintaining my side of this arrangement, Caiaphas.
39:58I've made plans to make an example of a zealot.
40:00Now tell me what you're doing to maintain yours.
40:02Oh, zealots are wonderful.
40:04That should be well received on both sides because both your people and our people hate
40:11zealots.
40:12They bring down your wrath on the common people.
40:15They make things worse for everyone.
40:18Don't change the subject.
40:19Your people hate zealots and they don't hate Jesus.
40:22I won't argue with that.
40:25But this city has a messianic fever and I need to bring the temperature down.
40:31Well, we agree there in the broadest sense we always have.
40:35I too want a lower temperature.
40:37Ah, well, there are some families of massacred Jews who might take issue with that.
40:44And neither of us wants a repeat.
40:46I want peace just like you.
40:49I just don't like what I'm hearing about your methods.
40:52What have you heard?
40:54Don't insult me.
40:55So you've been spying on us.
40:57You're not Roman citizens.
40:59You have no right to privacy.
41:00Exactly.
41:01You're not one of us.
41:04You don't believe in our God.
41:06Therefore, you cannot begin to know what's best for us.
41:11There are layers to this.
41:13You do not comprehend thousands of years of theology, tradition, and law.
41:20If you know what's best for the Jewish people, then why does Jerusalem have a fever?
41:25You asked me what I plan to do to maintain my side of our arrangement, and yet you already know.
41:33Why the intrusion?
41:35You just wanted to hear me say it out loud?
41:38Wipe that smug look off your face.
41:42You've grown too comfortable with our arrangement.
41:46So much so that you think you deserve the special treatment the Empire has come to give you over the years.
41:52My God's chosen people, why should we expect anything less?
41:56It's galling and confounding to everyone I know in Rome.
42:02Even our Stoic philosopher Seneca has wondered aloud to my humiliation how in Jerusalem the vanquished have given laws to the victors.
42:12Well, not anymore!
42:14Let me say to you plain and simple, Caiaphas.
42:23If you go through with this, and tensions rise as a result, our alliance is over.
42:39Shut up!
42:44This is oppression.
42:51We are devout men, yes.
42:54But we work hard, and we pay our tribute.
42:57This is an outrage!
42:59Sorry about the mix-up.
43:01It was our mistake.
43:03Shalom, shalom.
43:05Move out!
43:06Move!
43:14Move!
43:15Swords.
43:16Keep going.
43:17Up!
43:22Swords.
43:24Going!
43:35Up!
43:36For the Lord God is a sun and shield.
43:57The Lord bestows favor and honor.
44:05No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.
44:14Adonai has blessed and anointed our cause.
44:20And as David wrote, when he feigned madness to evade the king of Gath,
44:24when the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all of their trouble.
44:30It's a sign!
44:30From the prophet Jeremiah.
44:33Great are your purposes and mighty are your deeds.
44:38Your eyes are open to all the ways of the children of man,
44:43rewarding each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
44:51Job, at his lowest, cried out to Adonai,
44:55I know that you can do all things and that no purpose of yours shall be thwarted.
45:02You make a deal with the enemies of our people and our God and call it divine purpose?
45:09If you'll excuse me, brothers.
45:26For just a moment.
45:28What are you doing?
45:34I am leaving, Hophni.
45:35Why?
45:36Because it is the right thing to do.
45:39Leaving Jerusalem hours before Passover?
45:42Using the holy scriptures to delude and justify yourself?
45:45It's pathetic.
45:46You will not speak to me in that time.
45:47Or what?
45:49Nothing more can hurt me.
45:51My daughter is dead.
45:55My husband is a shadow.
45:57And we are in league with Rome.
45:59It was a Roman blade.
46:01Yes.
46:02But she was only there.
46:04Follow her, Rabbi.
46:05He bewitched her.
46:06Love is not a spell, Hophni.
46:10Her love for her Rabbi and for her future husband were real.
46:16Thomas was never worthy.
46:17That is rich coming from you at this moment.
46:20You're not leaving.
46:22I can't have Jesus taking both my daughter and my wife from me.
46:27If you think that this may soften my resolve, you are mistaken.
46:35I love you, Hophni.
46:37And I serve God and his laws.
46:39Which is why I pray that he will forgive me that I cannot stand by and watch
46:43what hate and guilt have turned you into.
46:47What about you, Hophni?
47:20Hello, Simon.
47:26We're not doing another chase and evade.
47:28Good?
47:29Let's talk now.
47:30Man to man?
47:34You know what this building is?
47:36A prison.
47:37What was that back there?
47:39I know, Caffney, but it wasn't your mistake detaining him.
47:44So tell me what's going on.
47:45I'm well aware of what it cost you to leave your old order and to follow Jesus.
47:48That level of dedication could have gotten you killed.
47:52It may yet.
47:53I hear no lies.
47:55Jesus is in real danger.
47:58I don't have to tell you that.
48:00No jail could hold the Messiah.
48:04No prison bars or shackles could contain him.
48:07Oh, you think I came here as some sort of a stunt?
48:13Have a little chat with you about the seriousness of your situation?
48:16Come on, Z.
48:17That'd be a big old waste of my time.
48:19I came here to question a zealot.
48:21Yeah, a murderer.
48:24Who is being transferred into this prison right about...
48:27Kronos be praised.
48:31Kronos be praised.
48:32Right on time.
48:34Simon of Zacarias is dead.
48:47Parabas.
48:48Oh, you know him?
48:55Old friend?
48:57Well, your pal is scheduled for execution in about, uh...
49:0428 hours, give or take.
49:07A day and then some.
49:09Parabas came to find me when I left the order.
49:12And you both survived?
49:14Somebody didn't do his job.
49:15We spoke.
49:16That's not what they sent him to do.
49:17He saw things.
49:19Things that should have compelled him to leave the order and believe.
49:24You think you could have saved him?
49:25I didn't say that.
49:26He could have saved himself.
49:28If only he'd opened his eyes and heart.
49:30Well, he did not open his eyes.
49:32Don't know about his heart.
49:33Don't care.
49:33Because now he's got to pay up consequences.
49:37Simon, I think you're about to find that out.
49:40I said no jail could contain him.
49:45Touchy.
49:47Fine.
49:48So maybe your messiah won't be jailed.
49:51But what about your friends?
49:53Hmm?
49:54One of them has already died.
50:04You know what?
50:04I'm just going to leave those there.
50:07In case you think you need to be ready.
50:09Luck happens when preparation meets opportunity.
50:19Buona fortuna.
50:27Simon Z.
50:27Today, the spirit of the Lord is upon me.
50:57He has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.
51:03Today, this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.
51:07I and the father are one.
51:17He was despised and rejected of men.
51:21A man of sorrow, acquainted with grief.
51:24Do not think I come to abolish the law or the prophets.
51:32I do not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.
51:35Rabbi, I am sorry to disturb you.
51:44I am sorry to disturb you.
51:45Scripture has already disturbed me.
51:48With all respect, I bring news that might make it worse.
51:52What?
51:52The facts are not fully confirmed, but my confidants are not given to exaggeration or inference without solid evidence.
52:00Don't withhold, young man.
52:02Say it.
52:03Caiaphas is making plans to arrest Jesus.
52:07Oh, impossible.
52:09He doesn't have the authority.
52:11And according to my reconnaissance, no one is certain where to find Jesus.
52:16There is talk of a collaborator.
52:19A traitor?
52:20From within the ranks of his own followers.
52:23Who among them could be capable of such a thing?
52:26I don't know what Matthias has told you,
52:27but not all of the followers are in agreement on how they view Jesus.
52:32I have witnessed dissent between them at the house of Lazarus.
52:35Even if one of them betrayed his whereabouts at this very moment,
52:39the Sanhedrin would still have to convene for a trial.
52:42And it is illegal for a capital offense to be tried on the day of preparation for the High Holy Day.
52:49Passover is in less than seven hours.
52:52Caiaphas' hands are tied.
52:54I assure you they're not, or rather they are, to his father-in-law.
53:00Anos.
53:01He's been deposed before.
53:04We can depose him again, if he's the one behind all of this,
53:08which I suppose he is.
53:10We?
53:10It's a naked violation of the law and tradition.
53:15Most of the judges don't even like Anos.
53:17You said we.
53:19Will you join me and Shimon and the centrist in denouncing Caiaphas' brazen infractions?
53:24Where would I even do that?
53:26Most of the administrative meeting spaces in the temple are closed for Passover.
53:30Nicodemus.
53:31You know Caiaphas has no scruples.
53:34My informers say they will call an emergency meeting overnight, tonight,
53:38citing an obscure loophole authorization from the Sefer Hamakabin during times of national crisis.
53:44Which is not a national crisis.
53:47He is, insofar as they rightly perceive him, to be a threat to this current corrupt Israeli hierarchy,
53:55which he's poised to dismantle.
53:57They're not all corrupt, but they are all scared.
53:59Of course they are.
54:00If I may be so bold.
54:02You are too harsh on your brethren, Rabban.
54:05They are mostly good men.
54:07May.
54:07Dedicated to their faith.
54:08Devoted to preserving our traditions and Torah.
54:11They just weren't ready for Jesus.
54:13I don't think anyone was.
54:15I don't think anyone was.
54:16I don't think anyone was.
54:17Present company included.
54:20Me or you?
54:22Both.
54:25Sunset to sunset has not passed, and somehow, I've twice been accused of misunderstanding Jesus of Nazareth.
54:31So you do?
54:33Do what?
54:34Understand Jesus.
54:36I'm getting there.
54:40So what's next?
54:41How can we solve this?
54:42What do you and Mary need to understand?
54:44The die is cast.
54:46My status is irrelevant.
54:48This requires a level of dexterity that neither of you have been forced to implement.
54:54It's not something I can solve with stern words and backroom somewhere.
54:59Mary, if you or I disclose our allegiance, now or ever, we will be shut out of all discussions altogether.
55:08Mary, his follower?
55:10I sent for her.
55:11She was searching for me, but recklessly.
55:13She could have quickened the disaster that is so rapidly unfolding.
55:17She was looking for help anywhere she can find it.
55:19I said recklessly.
55:20And you cared enough about that to bring her in.
55:22Why?
55:23If you're so resigned to the fate of Jesus.
55:25To save her and the others.
55:26From what?
55:27From what could happen next?
55:29I can't stop the Sanhedrin's attempts, but I can at least warn Jesus and his followers.
55:35Rabbi Nicodemus, please hear me.
55:39You are right.
55:42Neither I nor Mary have the wisdom or experience you have.
55:48But we are willing to do anything.
55:53You say we will be shut out of all discussions if we reveal ourselves.
55:56I will follow your lead on that.
55:59But surely, we can be part of the discussion tonight.
56:05I am studying the scriptures and Jesus' statements for clues as to what can happen next.
56:12Or what he has in store.
56:15It's a mystery.
56:17I have no idea what might happen tonight.
56:19Let's find out.
56:23Let's find out.
56:23Let's find out.
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