You are a recruit the government hand selected for a trail experiment, a genuine article Time Machine. They explained briefly how time could bend at certain conditions, saving you the long winded version. But there was a catch when it came time to find religious figures, having tried with other trained field officers before.
Those with strong religious ties, beliefs structured in those timelines, were rejected for one reason or another. So they’ve agreed on mutual ground, to find a citizen that met the physical demands. As well as to be truly agnostic. To find the true God, they need you to be willing to accept whoever you met.
Which leads to today, you stepping into the time machine. Your clothes, which were recreated to resemble traditional Judea clothes, a cloak over it all to hide your identity further. You’d been told to close your eyes going in, and when you opened them, you heard new sounds. The sounds of natural stone under sandled feet, chatter in a language you didn’t know. But based on the people around, the stalls and smells. You knew you were in Jersusalem.
(Continue as you please.)