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could not understand why he was behaving that way. He said, "What are you doing? I am really Winston Churchill."
He said, "I know. Three others are already here. This is a madhouse."
The whole night Winston Churchill had to remain there. He asked again and again, "Let me phone and inform your higher authorities that I am REALLY Winston Churchill."
But the man said, "They all say that they are REALLY Winston Churchill, and they all want to phone to higher authorities. Who do we listen to? You four can discuss and argue and decide."
The whole night Winston Churchill had to live with three other Winston Churchills, who were absolutely, as absolutely certain as he was. Even he became suspicious: "Perhaps I have gone mad, perhaps these people are right."
And this is not the only case, it has happened many times. It happened in India when Jawaharlal Nehru was prime minister. The biggest madhouse in India is in Bareilli. Jawaharlal was going to visit the madhouse, and the authorities of the madhouse thought, "It will be good if we can release someone as cured. And one man, the psychologist and the psychiatrist have found, is completely cured." So they thought this would be good: from Jawaharlal's hands this man can be released from the madhouse, cured. He will be happy -- and certainly he was happy. Jawaharlal gave him a hug and told him, "I am happy that you are cured."
He said, "Yes, I am also happy. And believe me, if you remain here for three years you will be cured also. When I came I also used to believe that I am Jawaharlal Nehru -- just like you."
Now, these messiahs are basically insane. And Jesus believed totally that crucifixion was going to prove him right. That's why I say there must be a hidden current of a suicidal wish, which nobody has bothered to look into. He went to the cross, and on the cross also he was still asking God, "Now is the time. Have you forsaken me?" He was asking for the miracle, for the resurrection, so he could prove to the Jews that he was their messiah. If anybody was responsible for the crucifixion, he himself was responsible. He asked for it.
And no Jewish source says that there
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