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"Caiaphas will  reply,  'It  is known  how  following  a  Roman crucifixion the bodies are buried  with only a light covering of gravel over them.  During the night dogs will root  his body out and feast on it.'

"'What of it?' Pilate will retort. 'It would be, in the end, no different than  if birds  consumed his  body, except  the burial will comply with the letter of your Code of Moshe.'

"Caiaphas will say, 'There will be  no body to show  the people when his followers claim their teacher rose from the dead.'

"The member of  the council  from Ramath-aim-Zophim,  who spoke before,  will choose  to  speak  once more.  'Listen,  I have  a freshly hewn crypt  which I caused to be made  for myself and my wife when our time is at hand. Lay the body of Yeshua within for the span of four days. There it will be safe from beasts.'

"But Caiaphas will say, 'You do not anticipate what will happen. His men will steal the body and three days after claim they saw him alive. Therefore,  Pilate, order your soldiers  to watch the tomb  with us  for  three nights,  that we  may  be certain  his followers do not overpower us and steal his body.'

"Pilate will  be  delighted,  as  this will  mark  the  end  of the  growing  pile of  tasks  Caiaphas  will  lay upon  him.  He gives  orders  to a  centurion  named  Longinius concerning  the crucifixion, and to another named Petronius concerning the watch on the tomb. Then you are led away and I follow unseen to ensure all transpires as they said it would be."

Yeshua said to Shyla, "You have served me exceedingly well. This outcome is almost perfect. I will be killed in  such a way that there is  no question I  did die,  yet I will  not be left  on a cross as a reminder of the power  of Rome. Nor will I be left in the crypt of  this councilman. The Sanhedrin will  have no body in a limed pit to say, look, he is there, neither could they say my body was  stolen. Yet I need you to  remain with my disciples for a time,  Shyla. They are all hiding. Only  you can show them the empty sepulchre where I was  laid. Only you can rehearse all my words in their hearing after I am gone.

Shyla told him, "It will all come to be as you said, Lord, yet I I dread the ordeal you must now endure. Crucifixion is the worst thing the Romans can imagine to do to a man."

"When have any of the  B'nei Elohim,  let alone a  seraph among them, suffered the pains of any torment ever devised?"