There was a small but very active community around Jesus. Its core was the immediate disciples of Jesus, who recognized him as their teacher in Galilee. According to legend, there were 12 of them, and they followed him during all his wanderings in what was then Palestine, almost completely detached from their environment, leaving not only the work that fed them (like fishermen Simon and Andrew), but also their families. The disciples lived together with Jesus, shared with him all the difficulties and joys of life, fed together and helped in preaching, obeyed him in everything. In addition to these, Jesus was followed by several women, who were not included in the number of disciples as such. The rest of the emerging community was variable. There were people who sometimes listened enthusiastically to the words of Jesus, then for some reason they later lost faith in them; there were those who kept faith in his preaching, but remained in their own environment, doing the same things. During the travels of Jesus and his disciples in Palestine, people appeared in various places who believed in him, but they did not go after him.

And the Pharisees, and still more the Sadducees, as already stated, strongly opposed people who declared themselves Messiahs, seeing in this the greatest sin. However, the highest body of the Jewish community, the Sanhedrin, was deprived of the right to impose death sentences, and he appealed to the Procurator. The Roman authorities, not versed in the intricacies of Eastern creeds and differences within Jewish religious thought, all such figures were considered rebels against the Emperor, and the very word “Kingdom” aroused their suspicion in the desire to achieve the independence of Judea from Rome. As a result, at the instigation of the top of the Jerusalem priesthood and the verdict of the Procurator Pontius Pilate, Jesus was put to the crucifixion — the most cruel and shameful form of execution, intended for fugitive slaves and especially rebels. The exact date of this event is unknown. Most likely, it happened around 30 ad or a little later.