The End of the Story?

A Galilean named Jesus has been executed. He had been quite popular during the past few years as a preacher and a worker of miracles. He had recently grown quite controversial though. The Jewish officials saw him as a threat to their establishment, not just for some of his statements, but also because the people were beginning to react to him in a way so as to make him king. The Romans would not like that! Pontius Pilate, the procurator, is ruthless when it comes to bloodshed!

An event like this is a journalist’s dream. There is no end to what one could talk about, and something could always be found to be said, even when one doesn’t have a clue what they are talking about!

Imagine if modern media were around to cover these events. What would they be saying? Whose side would they be on? Here is what I imagine the coverage to look like.

His arrest would have been covered as breaking news, on live tv. Even though it was supposed to be secret, there would, of course, be a leak. Every news network would be trying to question Judas, after Jesus had been taken away. Perhaps Judas would answer a few questions, but then again perhaps not. It would be all over the news the moment he was found dead...

Even though the trial before the Sanhedrin was also supposed to be secret, a “source very close to the High Priest” would leak the details.

Witnesses would be brought in and pundits on the cable news networks would be analyzing their testimony. Political analysts would be speculating on the outcome of each step taken, the trial before the Sanhedrin, before Pilate, before Herod, before Pilate again. The cameras would be bring the death sentence to the world live.

The actual execution of Jesus might not be shown, because of the graphic content of it. But plenty of eye-witnesses would be interviewed. A crowd full of former “believers” willing to go along with the tide that turned against Jesus and his followers.

Speaking of Jesus’s followers, they may have had even more trouble staying in hiding. After the betrayal of Judas, would they all become suspicious of another traitor infiltrating the group? There is no question that the media would love to interview them!

I imagine that the media would take a rather cynical view of things, perhaps even mocking by the time of this post, Saturday evening.

But now he is lieing in his grave, dead. The story will die with him. This is the end of the story.

OR IS IT????

TO BE CONTINUED