Yeshua Ha-Notzri is the prisoner whom Pontius Pilate judges and orders executed in the Yershalaim chapters. He is the figure who enters right after the first scene, in which Woland assures Berlioz that Jesus existed, and into whose mouth the book puts its moral thesis: "There are no wicked people in the world."
He is brought before the procurator accused of inciting the people to destroy the temple, and explains that he said something else: that the temple of the old faith will fall and in its place the temple of truth will rise. He tells that Judas of Kerioth received him at home and asked him about power, and that he answered that "any power is violence against people." He calls everyone good people, including the centurion Mark the Rat-Killer, who had just whipped him, and he diagnoses Pilate's headache and the loneliness of a man who, it seems, is attached only to a dog.
In chapter 16, he dies on the cross on Golgotha, beside Dismas and Gestas, with Matthew Levi nearby. When the executioner thrusts the spear into his heart, his last word is "Hegemon...," the title Pilate had forced him to use. Before dying, according to Afranius's report, he said that the worst of human weaknesses is cowardice.
Yeshua does not appear in Moscow, but he weighs on the outcome: according to Woland, the refuge of the Master and Margarita is "what Yeshua asked for you."