Back in Moscow, Woland correctly predicts Berlioz's impending death by being beheaded by a streetcar. After being pressured by the high priest Joseph Kaifa, Pilate publicly condemns Yeshua to death. Yehudah had betrayed him in front of state authority. Pilate is questioning Yesha Ha-Nozri though he does not want to condemn Yeshua, he realizes he must after he asks Yeshua about his conversation with Yehudah of Kerioth. He challenges their atheism with a story, which is the reader's first introduction to Pilate's world. The novel begins on a Wednesday night in Moscow at Patriarch's Ponds, where Mikhail Alexandrovich Berlioz and Ivan Nikolaevich Ponyrev have a mysterious encounter with Professor Woland, who is the devil.
The Master and Margarita takes place in two worlds: Moscow, between Wednesday night and the following Saturday night, and Pilate's world, 2000 years before in Yershayalim, during Passover.
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