“On the eve of Passover Yeshu [the Nazarene] was hanged. And a herald went forth before him for forty days, saying: ‘He is going forth to be stoned because he has practised sorcery and enticed Israel to apostasy. Any one who can say anything in his favour, let him come forward and plead on his behalf.’ But since nothing was brought forward in his favour he was hanged on the eve of Passover.”
(“Hanged” is the Talmud’s idiom for execution by the authorities, matching the Gospels’ crucifixion on the eve of Passover; cf. Galatians 3:13, “cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree.”)
• Jesus (“Yeshu”) was a real historical person. • He was executed in Jerusalem on the eve of Passover — exactly the Gospel chronology. • He was charged with “sorcery” — the rabbinic reframing of his miracles (his enemies admit the deeds, disputing only the source). • He was charged with “enticing Israel” — their reframing of his teaching and Messianic claims.
“The Tanna debe Eliyyahu teaches: The world is to exist six thousand years. The first two thousand years [were] void [of Torah]; the next two thousand years [were] the Torah; the following two thousand years [are] the days of the Messiah…”
The rabbis debate when the Messiah was due, and place the Messianic era in a window corresponding to the first centuries around the turn of the era. Elsewhere the Talmud records R. Hillel’s striking conclusion (Sanhedrin 99a) that “there shall be no Messiah for Israel, because they have already enjoyed him in the days of Hezekiah” — drawing sharp rebuke from other rabbis. Both point to an acute awareness that the prophesied window for Messiah’s coming had opened, and by their own reckoning, largely closed.
Even hostile rabbinic tradition acknowledged that the prophesied Messianic window fell in the very era Daniel 9’s count reaches — the first century AD.