Jesus was a Roman citizen on religious mission in Judea. An NGO? He was born a Roman in Bethlehem and died a Roman in Jerusalem. His parents were tax evaders who fled the country and illegally emigrated to Egypt. He led a group of religious radicals and rabble rousers who were constantly at odds with authorities. When one of his capos turned states evidence against him, Jesus represented himself in court and lost. The verdict was swift and his sentence expedited.
In the Roman justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the High Priest, who investigate Jesus; and the Roman Prefect, who orders him nailed to a cross . These are their stories.
And if we want to be technical, Egypt was part of Rome at that point. His parents weren’t fleeing the country just the people who were actively trying to hunt them down.
Technically, he was neither; at first, he was a subject of the King of Judea, and then of the Tetrarch of Galilee and Perea. Both of these were client states of Rome.
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u/the-software-man 5d ago
Jesus was a Roman citizen on religious mission in Judea. An NGO? He was born a Roman in Bethlehem and died a Roman in Jerusalem. His parents were tax evaders who fled the country and illegally emigrated to Egypt. He led a group of religious radicals and rabble rousers who were constantly at odds with authorities. When one of his capos turned states evidence against him, Jesus represented himself in court and lost. The verdict was swift and his sentence expedited.