It was not so surprising that the high priests of the people in the world that were the most committed to marriage crucified the world redeemer, who was such an obvious incarnation of "neighbourly love"
1429. In relation to the above it is not so surprising that the high priests of a nation with statutory circumcision, who consequently represented one of the peoples in the world most committed to marriage, crucified the world redeemer. He was the "serpent" in their "paradise", embodied in flesh and blood. He would take absolutely no part in stoning "the woman taken in adultery". He embarked on a long conversation with a woman who had been married five times and who now lived with a man to whom she was not married. Moreover, by being unmarried, he himself lived in a way that was inconsistent with the Jewish ideal of marriage, not to mention the feelings of attraction and love that he entertained for beings of both his own sex and those of the opposite sex. Loving one's neighbour as oneself must to the very highest degree constitute the "forbidden fruit" in the "paradise" of marriage. Teaching this as the ideal had to a corresponding degree to be the same as promoting the "temptation of the serpent" and thereby a "devilish temptation". It had to be to lead the beings into corruption. Crushing this "immoral" being, this "seducer" or "tempter" had to be a task that had to be absolutely sacred for the priests and ecclesiastical authorities of the Law of Moses, quite apart from the fear they felt with regard to what would happen to their own social position and reputation if he were not removed.
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