23rd April 2007
Jesus acquitted on appeal
Jesus outside court celebrating the ruling |
Comprising of Italian and Israeli judges, the panel voted 10-2 to quash the charge of sedition.
Speaking outside the special court, Jesus said: ''I've waited 2,000 years for this moment but I never gave up hope that justice would be done."
Know not
Raising his hands in victory, the Son of Man said that he bore no resentment to the people who crucified him in AD33: "Father forgive them for they know not what they do."
At the start of the trial, Jesus confided that he was confident that the system works, adding that "everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice".
Pope Gregory XVI has sent his congratulations, as has the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Patriarchs of Constantinople and Moscow.
Think does
However, not every legal mind on the panel felt that an appeal was due.
Dissenting Pharisee Cohen said in his written judgment that such a longtime had passed since he original trial that he saw little relevance in an appeal: "Although I have much sympathy with al-Nazareth for carrying this burden of wrongful conviction all this time, it is both so old and beyond regular jurisdiction that it is neither useful nor appropriate for courts to open such cases."
Following the Success of the appeal, the Nicene Creed will now read:
And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate.
He suffered and was buried,
And the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures,
And in the 1,994 year after this the descendents of his original judges absolved him of all crimes.
Speaking outside the special court, Jesus said: ''I've waited 2,000 years for this moment but I never gave up hope that justice would be done."
Know not
Raising his hands in victory, the Son of Man said that he bore no resentment to the people who crucified him in AD33: "Father forgive them for they know not what they do."
At the start of the trial, Jesus confided that he was confident that the system works, adding that "everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice".
Pope Gregory XVI has sent his congratulations, as has the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Patriarchs of Constantinople and Moscow.
Think does
However, not every legal mind on the panel felt that an appeal was due.
Dissenting Pharisee Cohen said in his written judgment that such a longtime had passed since he original trial that he saw little relevance in an appeal: "Although I have much sympathy with al-Nazareth for carrying this burden of wrongful conviction all this time, it is both so old and beyond regular jurisdiction that it is neither useful nor appropriate for courts to open such cases."
Following the Success of the appeal, the Nicene Creed will now read:
And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate.
He suffered and was buried,
And the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures,
And in the 1,994 year after this the descendents of his original judges absolved him of all crimes.
