The soldiers brandished their weapons and rushed towards Jhoa. Peter pulled out his sword and stood in front of Jhoa. He swung his sword and cut a soldier's ear in half. Jhoa stopped Peter, walked over and touched the soldier's cheek. The wound was miraculously healed. At this time, the soldiers surrounded Jhoa with chains and took him down the mountain like a prisoner.
Jhoa was taken to the house of the Chief Elder of the Alohor Temple, High Priest Caiaphas. Although it was late at night, all the High Priests of the Temple had come. They decided to interrogate Jhoa here overnight. While the revelers in the city had not completely dispersed, if the result of the interrogation was in their favor, they would announce Jhoa's crimes before dawn and let everyone see what would happen to Jhoa. If the result of the interrogation was not in their favor, they would secretly imprison Jhoa and execute him after all the pilgrims had left.
Disciples John and Peter followed the soldiers to Caiaphas's house in the dark of night. John knew the maid of the High Priest's house, but the maid did not know that he was Jhoa's disciple. John entered the courtyard from the side door and said to the maid, "Can my friend come in with me?"
"Yes." The maid nodded and looked at Peter in the light. "Aren't you the disciple of the man who was just captured?" Peter replied, "No, I'm not. I don't know him."
As soon as he said this, he suddenly felt a chill. He could not help but walk to the fire in the middle of the courtyard. Many people suddenly came in the night. Most of them were the priests' servants, so the courtyard was a little messy.
One of the people by the fire looked at Peter and frowned. "You look like the follower of the criminal who was just captured."
Peter shouted, "No, you've got the wrong person. I don't know him at all!" As he answered, he listened attentively to the interrogation in the room.
After a while, another priest's servant looked at Peter and said, "I saw you in the Temple Square. You are the criminal's follower!" Peter denied, "I've already told you, I don't know that person and I don't know what you're talking about!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a rooster crowed. The eastern sky turned white. Peter suddenly remembered what Yoram had said at dinner last night. "Before the rooster crows tomorrow, you will say three times that you don't know me." Pyotr, who had just been defending himself in his mind by pretending not to know Jonah in order to spy on the situation, now came to his senses, and tears streamed down his cheeks.
Just then the door of the interrogation room opened, and Joel was taken out. He saw Peter in the firelight, and his eyes were calm, with a soothing power. Peter, unable to bear it any longer, and feeling that he had failed his most esteemed guide, ran quickly out of the courtyard, and burst into tears in a quiet street corner.
This past night, József was interrogated. The process was not smooth at first.
The priest accused Johan of many crimes, including those that Socrates or Aesop had been accused of: blasphemy, corruption, and poisoning the faith of the people.
They called many witnesses who had listened to Johan's preaching in the Temple Square, but none of them could prove that Johan was guilty. Johan could recall every word he had said, not a single syllable wrong, and his answers in court were impeccable.
Finally, the high priest Caiaphas decided to interrogate Johan himself. He asked, "Carpenter of Nazareth, say those blasphemous words again in public. Please tell me … that you are the Messiah of Elijah's prophecy, the Son of God and the Savior of the people of Nazareth. " Johan looked straight into the eyes of the high priest, and for the first time, he answered in a clear and definite voice, "Yes, I am!"
The high priest shouted, "This is your crime! God has not given an oracle in the temple. Criminals who are under the influence of Satan always claim that they will become God. "
Johan asked, "May I ask, since you know about the temple, has God ever given an oracle?" This question hit the nail on the head. Ever since David Solomon demolished the Temple of Ammon to build the Temple of Aloha, Aloha had never given an oracle in the temple. The last oracles of Ammon were given to the high priests through the temples of Eygut.
The high priest avoided Johan's direct gaze, unable to suppress the anger in his heart, and asked in a low voice, "How do you prove that you are the Messiah? Can you save your own destiny when you are chained and interrogated?" Johan retorted, "Why should I prove it to you? In fact, I have already proved that you are blind! Who here is qualified to sign a document confirming the identity of the Messiah? "
This sentence was unusually sharp. No court in the mortal world could provide such proof. Even the high priests of the Holy Temple did not have such qualifications. Jesus said slowly, "It does not matter who I claim to be, but whether I spread my faith or not. The light is right in front of the eyes, but those who are chained turn a blind eye. "
The high priest stared at Johan again and said, "Very well, I will give you a chance to defend yourself. May I ask, are you the king that people expect? Will you give food to every Talim, lead them to build a strong kingdom, free them from Maro's rule, and conquer the continent? "
If Johan answered "yes," he would be violating Maro's law, but the priests might not dare to hand him over to Maro, because that would anger all the Talim. But if Johan answered "no," he would be falling into the high priest's trap, and he denied the identity that people expected.
Johan answered, "No, I am not that kind of king." The high priest's eyes lit up, and he asked loudly, "Then what have you brought?" Johan replied, "The gospel, only the gospel of God." At this time, the scene in the interrogation room was a little chaotic, and people were shouting, "He really is a liar!", "A fraud!", "Such a person should be executed!"
Someone else reminded, "Apart from the King, only Governor Maro has the authority to sentence him to death. Letting Maro sentence him to death is the greatest irony!"
Someone else shouted, "If the people think that Johan should be executed, then Governor Maro will not dare to go against the will of the people. Hand him over to the soldiers to parade him through the streets, and let the people who have been deceived ask him personally if he is the savior of God? When he is removed from his halo and shackled to the point where he cannot even save himself, the people will come to their senses! " The high priest turned around and waved his hand. Without saying anything else, Johan was escorted out by the soldiers. At this time, it was already dawn. The crowing of chickens could be heard in the distance.
Maro Empire's governor, Pilate, was woken up early in the morning by the priests who came to see him. The priests told the governor, "There is a person called Johan, he deceived the people and prevented them from paying taxes. He also said that he is the king of Talim."
If these accusations were true, then Johan would undoubtedly be sentenced to death.
However, the governor knew that these were all fabricated accusations. He had long heard of Johan's name and even sent his servants to the plaza to listen to Johan's preaching.
Pilate had prayed to the Olympian gods to ask them how to deal with this matter. Zeus, the father of the gods, had sent down an oracle telling him not to interfere like he did with John the Baptist. So Maro didn't want to meddle in other people's business and pretended to be deaf and dumb.
But at this time, hundreds of people came from all over and surrounded the governor's mansion. They waved their fists and shouted, "Execute Johan, crucify him! Crucify him! Crucify him! "More and more people gathered.
The priests had the soldiers escort Johan to the plaza and had a group of servants pretend to be commoners. They shouted, "Johan, please tell us, are you the Messiah?" Johan calmly and clearly replied, "Yes, I am."
The people then asked, "Will you give food to every Talim, lead them to build a powerful kingdom, break away from Maro's rule, and conquer the entire continent?"
Johan answered truthfully, "No, I am not that kind of king."
The people shouted again, "Then what have you brought us?"
Johan looked at the people with pity in his eyes and replied calmly, "The Gospel, only the Gospel of God." These were the questions and answers he gave during the interrogation, and according to the instructions of the priests, everyone in Talim could hear them. Not only did people shout at Johan in the plaza, but there were also people who ran to every corner of the city and pretended to be the high priest and Johan, shouting and answering each other, revealing Johan's "true face" to the people.
The news quickly spread throughout the city, and the pilgrims who were about to leave gathered again. Those who had been appointed by the priests, mingling in the crowd, shouted, "Every one has seen and heard that Jhoa is a liar, and deceives the people with lies." "He can't give us anything, the Deliverer in Elijah's prophecy is not him, he can't even save himself!"
The people were excited, and they began to parade Yola in Shaleng City. At first, there were only a few hundred people appointed by the priests, but later, more and more people were stirred up by them. People gathered from all directions like a surging tide.
On the eighth day of Joseph's entry into the city of Salem, he was not preaching the gospel of God to the people as the Son of God, but he had become a disgraceful criminal, and was swallowed up by a tide of resentment, and everywhere there were cries for his execution.
The human heart was this strange, and the fall of the Son of God in their hearts could only happen for a moment. When Johan stood in the plaza of the temple and was worshipped by the people, he seemed to be surrounded by an invisible holy light: but when he was being paraded in chains by the soldiers, no matter how one looked at him, he was a despicable liar.
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