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• And yet here were the priests of Jesus’ day, in that very Temple, unable to tell whether Jesus was the Messiah, the descendant of those who were faithful and victorious against the Greeks, or whether he had a devil, and should be killed like Antiochus Ephiphanes. In the end, instead of rising up against the Romans and throwing off the shackles of Rome as they had done against the Greeks not long before, instead of hailing Jesus as the Messiah and falling down before him, and gaining their Land back from the oppressor - instead, the priests choose to kill and crucify the Prince of Princes, to oppress and kill the disciples, to cause craft to prosper in the Land, and to rise up against the host of Heaven and rebel against God himself.