{"id":4030,"date":"2017-04-03T15:01:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T19:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simchajtv.com\/?p=4030"},"modified":"2017-04-06T17:38:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T21:38:48","slug":"politics-behind-the-crucifixion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simchajtv.com\/politics-behind-the-crucifixion\/","title":{"rendered":"New Film: Politics Behind the Crucifixion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4031\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simchajtv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LDOJ-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.simchajtv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LDOJ-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.simchajtv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LDOJ-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.simchajtv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LDOJ-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.simchajtv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LDOJ.jpg 1890w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Three years ago, Prof. Barrie Wilson and I published a book titled &#8220;The Lost Gospel: Decoding the Ancient Text that Reveals Jesus&#8217; Marriage to Mary the Magdalene&#8221; (Pegasus \/ Canada HarperCollins). It is based on a 1400-year-old manuscript in the British Library. Much of this encoded Gospel deals with Jesus&#8217; personal life. But one part provides the politics behind the crucifixion. In the Gospels, it seems that from the moment of Jesus&#8217; triumphant entry into Jerusalem to his crucifixion, only five days elapsed. In contrast, this manuscript expands &#8220;Holy Week&#8221; into six months! It resolves all sorts of unexplained inconsistencies in the Gospels; for example, why was Jesus not arrested by the Romans when he created a riot in the Temple, by overturning the tables of the currency exchangers? Why was he treated like a political hot potato, passed from the Temple High Priest, to the Roman-appointed Jewish ruler, to the Roman governor himself&#8230; and back again? If Jesus wasn&#8217;t arrested when he caused trouble, why was he arrested when he caused none? Our book reveals the high-level Roman politics that surrounded Jesus&#8217; entry into Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>And now&#8230; the movie!<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow night, on PBS in the United States (April 4th) @ 8PM\/7C &#8220;The Last Days of Jesus&#8221; will have its premiere. It&#8217;s based, in part, on our book and is sure to cause some lively debate and, hopefully, throw some light on one of the most important events in human history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The greatest story ever told&#8221; will now be told in a way that it&#8217;s never been told before.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/program\/last-days-jesus\/\">Click here to watch the trailer.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h4>Subscribe to my Newsletter:<\/h4>\n<p>\n<form method='post' id='mad_mimi_form2'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div>\t\t<label for='signup_name2'>Name<\/label><br \/><input id='signup_name2' name='signup[name]' type='text' value='' \/><br \/>\t\t<label for='signup_email2'>Email<span class='required' title='This field is required'>*<\/span><\/label><br \/><input id='signup_email2' name='signup[email]' type='text' value='' \/><br \/>\t\t<input name='commit' class='button' type='submit' value='Subscribe' \/><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"mimi_form_id\" name=\"mimi_form_id\" value=\"2\" \/><input name=\"signup[list_name]\" value=\"all\" type=\"hidden\" \/><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/form>Emails by <a href=\"http:\/\/katz.si\/mm\" title=\"Mad Mimi is a simple, intelligent and powerful email marketing utility that anyone can use.\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mad Mimi<\/a>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three years ago, Prof. Barrie Wilson and I published a book titled &#8220;The Lost Gospel: Decoding the Ancient Text that Reveals Jesus&#8217; Marriage to Mary the Magdalene&#8221; (Pegasus \/ Canada&hellip; <span class=\"read-more-span\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simchajtv.com\/politics-behind-the-crucifixion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Film: Politics Behind the Crucifixion&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"genericon genericon-next\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[4,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jesus-archeology","category-must-see"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.simchajtv.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LDOJ.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3PT4F-130","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simchajtv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simchajtv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simchajtv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simchajtv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simchajtv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4030"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/simchajtv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4050,"href":"https:\/\/simchajtv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030\/revisions\/4050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simchajtv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simchajtv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simchajtv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simchajtv.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}