Neither the Sanhedrin nor King Herod, but only Pontius Pilate, could pass judgment over Yehoshua son of Miriam and Joseph. He had inherited Roman citizenship from his father, which was one of the reasons that they could travel freely within the Roman empire (on Roman roads).
Notice that Yehoshua was sentenced for “claiming kingship” and not for blasphemy. If he had been a citizen of Judea or a subject to the Temple-law, he would have been killed by either the Sanhedrin or Herod.
Even if he would have claimed kingship over Judea, being Judean citizen, that would not have sufficed for Pilate to condemn him, for claiming kingship as a feudal-king within an occupied province was not in itself a capital crime against the Roman empire.
On the other hand, for any Roman Citizen, claiming any kind of kingship anywhere at all, was a capital crime against the emperor, and before that a crime against the Senate.
Another key element to this understanding is the fact that Augustus the emperor of Rome, at the birth of Jesus, declared that roman citizens throughout the empire had to register themselves and redeclare their claim of citizenship in Rome. Subjects of provinces outside Rome were not expected to be indexed and register at all within that legal framework. That’s why Joseph – or Yusuf – went to register himself, for he was, just like Saul from Tarsus, a Roman Jew.
“Tell me, are you a Roman?” He said: “Yes.”—Acts 22:27.
I explained this situation in my book “Logostal on Biblical understanding” which still only exists in Icelandic as “Orðatal, af leyndardómum Biblíunnar.” As far as I know, there has been no public understanding of these matters in Christian theology through the centuries.
Interesting as it may be, sometimes the simplest explanations are right in front of us all the time and once we see, we are dumbfounded that we didn’t see them earlier. Yet, the most interesting of all mysteries is this; if theologians, laymen, or prophets before my time have discovered this, most of all; if the Freemasons in the time of Constantin the great knew this, then why is it so important to them to make sure that people don’t see it?
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