Yeshua was rather more ambivalent to the occupying forces than Osama - he was prepared to acknowledge their power, not their right, to levy tribute, and would heal the servant of an NCO, indeed praise the NCO for his faith in him. He was also - I think - probably genuinely funny in performance; most of the parables are intrinsically comic and the ones that aren't probably are, just not across two millennia...
Given he may have thought he was the Messiah, he was a lot less up himself than Osama.
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