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Previously on Testament.

Jesus is the royal priest as promised in Genesis. And God calls us each to be a

temple. No, no.

There will be no more questions for him.

How many more ministers must we all lose before you do that?

They're reporting that their pages of worship has been invaded by heretics.

If we have the guard, we could stop them.

We at the temple are in agreement.

The followers pose no real threat. Believe me, Mara, it will blow over

Do you really believe that, Minister?

Are you a minister of the faithful?

Because you often forget what that means.

I'm offering you a way back in.

Take it.

We'll be at service tomorrow.

Yeah.

We could use you.

Our planning is reckless.

The temple won't like it, but it will send a very clear message.

Your boy is guided by hatred.

And it will be his downfall.

Stephen, you should go!

Quiet, you! Stephen, you shouldn't have come!

You have to leave!

We have some things we'd like you to address.

You want me to defend myself against lies?

No, we want you to defend yourself before the family drinks.

This man is a stain on the Jewish faith!

Seize him!

Don't leave me, God.

Don't leave me, God. Don't leave me.

and sustain you in your old age, for your daughter -in -law, who loves you

who's better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.

And Naomi took the child in her arms and cared for him.

And the women living there said, Naomi has a son.

And so they called him Obed. Obed, are you awake?

Obed. He was the father of Jesse?

Obed was the father of Jesse, who was the father of David.

Ma, I'm away from the window.

Thank you.

Oh, man.

Let me explain.

meaning of this.

High Minister.

Grand Sanhedrin.

Before you, we have brought a criminal of the faith.

An incessant lawbreaker who must stand trial immediately.

Are you out of your mind?

Who are you to stumble in here and disrupt the Sanhedrin's assembly and

demands?

Apologies, Minister. To this man.

has spoken publicly against our law and holy places to masses of people in the

synagogues. Enough is enough.

It is for the safety of our faith and temple that we demand he is tried

immediately. The answer is no. You have no voice here. We will not stand for

this.

Do you people not understand there is a due process?

I have no ministerial witness.

This cannot... Our faith and our synagogues must not be degraded in this

That is the last time you will disrespect me.

I will not be forced to do anything.

Captain!

If you're not stationed at the foyer, chambers now.

I suggest

you

all think very carefully about your next steps.

You carry on like this, and you'll find yourselves on trial.

Guards, take them away.

And release that man.

Why?

Everybody wait!

Who are the guards on duty out there?

Saul of Tarsus.

High Minister, forgive me for such an entrance, but what these men have said

true. All of it. This man they have captured is somebody extremely dangerous

the faith, and for the safety of our people, should not be released without

immediate trial. I beg your pardon? Like the other Jesus followers, he too is a

heretic. But this man disregards the faith and the temple in such a manner

he deems it his calling to break into synagogues and speak against the

Sanhedrin, Moses, and our God.

Not only does he indoctrinate the people in our synagogues, but he calls for our

children to condemn the temple in the streets.

Ministers, this man is proof of everything I have said about this cult

beginning. And suddenly things are starting to make sense.

I imagine this farce is completely your doing. You really can't help yourself,

can you?

High Minister, with the greatest respect, might I suggest we quickly

incapable Saul of Tarsus and get his men off the premises.

Need we remind him he is not a member of the Sanhedrin? No, I'm not.

But I am still a minister.

A minister who today witnessed the crimes of this man.

He's a ministerial witness.

That changes things.

Herr Minister, I implore you, for the good of our faith, let the trial

for this man take place immediately. This has nothing to do with our faith.

Everything to do with it!

When are we going to wake up?

We've all seen the decline in our synagogues.

All heard of how our renowned leaders have deserted and denounced our way of

life.

Elected ministers, if we are not careful, future generations will

faith as a thing of old.

It will be a distant memory.

I am sorry, but I am no longer prepared to let any more of these criminals come

and diminish what is sacred, what is ours.

I will put my reputation at stake if it means we fight back and punish this man.

Your reputation holds no weight. I will stake my life. Enough.

The man accused.

Let him rise.

The man of danger appears to be just a boy.

Ministers.

There's been a mistake.

I know this boy.

I can assure you he is not the man they claim him to be. High Minister, you need

to... I've spoken too much.

The boy standing before us, his name is Stephen.

He is the son of a good man, a man who years back before he passed...

was prevalent in our synagogues.

You knew his father?

Yes, High Minister, we were friends. His father, like us, studied the scriptures

diligently and was a devout follower of the law.

His father's righteous way of living cannot excuse the accusation against the

boy. Elected ministers, it would be beneath the Sanhedrin to punish this boy

based on accusations for which there is no real evidence. I saw him.

I vouch for him.

He is not a criminal of the faith.

High Minister, you need to remove Gamaliel from these chambers.

Preposterous! In order for this to be a fair trial, I ask Gamaliel be removed

from the court.

Who do you think you are?

Ministers, the reason why Gamaliel will vouch for this criminal is because he is

a Jesus sympathizer.

Rubbish!

Saul of Tarsus, such an accusation could have dire consequences.

It's true, High Minister.

In fact, a Jesus sympathizer is putting it kindly.

You've gotten out of hand. Ministers, may I remind you?

That it was Gamaliel who fought for the twelve leaders of this man's cult to be

released. And now we see him doing exactly the same thing. This is not the

as... Time and time again.

When I have pushed privately, we deal with these parasites.

It has been Gamaliel who insisted for me to mind my own business. Leave them

alone. High Minister, he's lying. The one time I refused, I was punished.

Because you are obsessed. Cast out. My nomination revoked. Because you are

obsessed!

He meets with them.

He's been seen with a leader who's been tried here twice.

I have a witness.

Is that true?

I would never betray the temple, High Minister.

He already has.

He's twisting events.

Did you meet with them?

It wasn't... Did you privately meet with their leaders?

Yes or no?

Caiaphas... Answer the question.

Prime Minister, what is your verdict?

Let the trial commence.

You cannot be here. Those people are out for blood.

Caiaphas, help him. We have to help him. Look at me, Aston. Look at me.

Now listen carefully.

The Sanhedrin are not allowed to pass capital punishment. Only the Imperium

And Caiaphas...

It does not want the Imperium here. We need to find the followers, sister.

They need to come and make enough noise so that everyone is forced to keep

things peaceful. Do you understand?

They need to remind the Sanhedrin of their limitations.

Okay, I tracked one of their leaders to somewhere south of here. I know where

they are.

I know.

I know how to get there. Run!

Go to them! Now! Run!

Minister Saul, tell these men to remove themselves.

It's fine.

You can go.

Caiaphas, high minister and royal priest, call on the most high God.

May he be in this place and reveal his will to us, his committed servants.

Amen.

Remember, boy, I dealt with your Jesus and I can easily deal with you too.

You will speak when spoken to.

You will tell no lies and you will show respect before our God.

Is that understood?

Minister Saul, what are the accusations against this boy?

Respected Ministers.

Hi, Minister.

Praise to the Most High.

This man has been invading the Libertine synagogue with his heresy for weeks,

drawing people away from the faith, manipulating our scriptures.

On countless occasions, the Freedmen members report him saying, they

report him saying, his Jesus of Nazareth will tear down this holy place,

our temple.

and changed the customs handed down to us from Moses.

Moses, the very same who God handed the law to, this man would have us throw

it away like it's nothing.

Minister Saul, clear the floor.

to destroy the temple, to cast away the customs of Moses.

Are these charges true?

Brothers,

Fathers, do you remember the promise?

You keep speaking about Moses and his customs, but don't you remember how God

appeared to Abraham way before?

It was to Abraham, our forefather, God said, leave.

Leave everything you've known, everything you are.

Go to the land I will show you. So he did.

And it was here that God made Abraham the promise.

That Abraham and his descendants would possess this land. That he would make

Abraham a great nation. And that through his people, our people,

God would bless the entire world.

But look at us.

Our people are oppressed.

The Imperium has taken our land and the rest of the world do not know our God.

So what happened?

His word is true. He's not a liar.

What is it then?

You're the teachers.

You meet to discuss him every day. You pour through his scriptures and you

in his name. Tell me!

Where is his promise?

Where is he?

What happened? They took him. The freedmen. They made a public arrest.

Stephen. He's on trial now.

The people are demanding they kill him.

Let's go.

I know where some of them are, should I? Yes, go.

Jane!

Stephen's been put on trial.

What? But they can't have put him on trial already.

Look, we've got no time. Are you coming or not?

Of course we are.

Come on.

I've seen.

God save our people time and time again.

I know it in my bones. God will show up for Stephen.

Matthew and I will stay here with the house.

Come on, we've got you. Let's go.

Which way are we going? Central intersection.

We won't stop praying.

During the famine, it was through Joseph that our fathers were saved. Even

though they betrayed him, he still loved them. He saved them.

But when a new pharaoh came to power, one that had forgotten all the good

had done, that pharaoh enslaved our people for 400 years.

That, my fathers, that is when God raised up the Moses that this man claims

dishonoured.

You studied him?

Moses wasn't a normal child.

He was adopted and educated by Egyptian royalty. But when he saw one of his own

people being beaten by an Egyptian guard, he reacted.

And he thought that people would recognize God using him to save them,

didn't.

Instead, they accused him.

They feared him.

So Moses ran.

The angel of the Lord appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the

deserts of Mount Sinai, not in some sacred hall or majestic building, but in

wilderness. Don't you get it? It was in the wilderness that the God of Abraham,

Isaac, and Jacob said for Moses to take off his sandals, for he was standing on

holy ground.

He sent Moses back to Egypt, used him to free his people, the very people who

had first rejected him.

But he performed.

He led his people out of Egypt, through the Red Sea and into the wilderness. And

it was here that Moses reminded them of God's promise.

God's promise to Abraham.

You have to get to the temple. You can't all come through together.

There's no need for that. There's no need for that.

There's too many of you.

I'll let a couple of you enter this way. The rest of you find another route.

I don't want to hear it.

What's going on?

I don't know.

I think it's the Jesus people.

And then, generations later, out of the wilderness and in this land

of milk and honey, King David loved our God so much that he wanted to build a

house for him.

A place where all could come and worship.

It was his son, Solomon.

Who first built this?

The temple.

Justice! We want justice!

We want justice!

Caleb, do the others get through? Where's David?

You don't know? We put him on trial. We're all going to get him.

Okay, okay, everyone listen up.

James, Peter, Simon, you go through first. We'll get to you as soon as

Try and get an audience. I must go with them.

Okay, stop gunning our identification.

No, it needs to be all of us. I know what he said, but if... I know,

I know. You come straight up.

This temple, where people have worshipped our Lord generation after

clinging to his promise. This temple, which even Solomon said could not

our God. This temple, where only you, the high minister, may enter the holy of

holies. Where you say we must come to be with God.

But the Most High doesn't live in houses made by mere human hands. It is as the

prophet Isaiah wrote, Heaven is my throne and the world is my footstool.

house could you possibly build for me, says our God? Where would you have me

live? Did I not make all these things?

You're stubborn and proud, all of you, waiting here for God's promise to be

fulfilled, but you're blind.

You're deaf to his words.

Your hearts are like stone.

You don't even recognize the voice that created you. You continue to reject the

Holy Spirit, just like your ancestors did, time and time again.

a prophet that your fathers didn't persecute.

Anyone.

The same prophets that were killed because they announced the coming of the

promise. The righteous one. The king.

The messiah.

Jesus.

Who you betrayed and had murdered.

You, who have the words of life, who have the law, but

don't even keep it.

You, who sit here so still and full of yourselves in this house

made from human hands.

You can't even tell when God's on the move.

His promise arrived.

And you're missing it.

Look. Look.

Look.

It's Jesus.

I see.

I see.

I see the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.

Are you going?

What's going on here?

Do you know who I am?

Then leave us to our work.

Northern checkpoint, purple sector five.

Pilot might want to hear about this.

Received. Investigate.

Hi, come on.

They're meeting in the chamber, this way.

Take us to Stephen.

Hey.

Where is he?

He's at the city walls.

Okay.

City walls.

Hector.

Don't go there.

Stay here.

I found them.

I brought them. I did it.

Jesus, Lord, receive my spirit.

Don't hold this sin against the Lord.

You see me.

I'm ready now.

Bring me home.

People are sad.

Yeah.

I'm going to get baptised one day.

Yeah? Yeah.

I like Jesus.

Even though I never met him.

Same here.

Jesus is in heaven now, right?

Yeah. But he's coming back one day.

Jesus?

Yeah.

Because it's not over, you know.

That's cool.

I can't wait to meet him.

Neither can I.