My mother approached me with the traditional question, “No, can you explain to me who and why crucified him?”

My mother is 80 years old, she is good with me, in a healthy mind, doing something at home, but with the memory is not. Therefore, on any Orthodox feast, she takes me to the corner and knocks out of me a lecture on Christianity.
It has long lasted.
My mother was a professional communist, she worked in the city council all her life and religion was a taboo for her. Then, already in retirement in the reconstruction years, she decided to join the religious discourse.
And it started.

So what does it get? Were they all Jews?

and yes.

Was Jesus a Jew?

And he too.

- And the Orthodox then what to do with these Jewish strife?

Is that what you say here? Especially because I am an atheist.

I am glad there are religious relatives. My mother spoke to them for a long time, and she understood something. And again she asked, "Can you explain to me in human language what happened there and what we are celebrating? »

I tried to tell her a new covenant in a clear terminology.

There was a Roman Empire, like the USSR.

I understand.

It was the Union Republic of Judea.

Now it is human.

There was the first secretary, the high priest, Anna, as it was appointed.
from local ones. And he had a headquarters at him – Kaiafa. and second
The secretary, as was prescribed from the center, was called the prosecutor.

What is Pontius Pilate? They couldn’t be human right away.
to write! So what?

They had a big party party party. Everyone is preparing,
There are reporting meetings, solemn reports, everything as usual. and here
Suddenly a dissident arrives. Declared elements
Asana is screaming. not well.

Oh, I understand, that is what Christ means. What was his dissent?

He was opposed to formalism and formalism.

You are a volunteer!

type of that. The publicman Judas where it was necessary, Christ was bound,
They moved into the monkey and decided to organize a demonstration process.

They had publicity!

and controlled. Anna and Caiafa gathered a plenum and decided how
Combating foreign manifestations. Crucify the dissident has no authority.
was, the sanction was needed from the center, here they went to the second
Secretary Pontius Pilate. They say, let us crucify this dissident, or we
You have failed to work with local staff.

- Yes, these bays in the Union republics are forever so... Well even asked.
And then what?

Pontius Pilate said to them, “Do not hang your dissidents on me, but go to me.”
the Jewish pre-committee of Herod, he is the executive authority, and
He decides. Go to Herod, he is rejected, saying it is not my jurisdiction.
In general, I am out of Herodiada worse than Galina Brezhnevova behaves, and here you are.
yet yet.

Everything is like people!

That is the meaning. Then we went back to Pilate, who finally gave the sanction.
but with reservations, as usual: “I wash my hands, under your responsibility, I
reporting, curtains in places, etc. “Christ was crucified.

Now it is understandable!

Thanks to God!

Stay still, I don’t understand.

What is incomprehensible?

How can it be that the first secretary is a Jew?