Providing an account of the trial of Jesus presents challenges unlike that for any of the other trials on the Famous Trials Website. First, there is the challenge of determining what actually happened nearly 2,000 years ago before the Sanhedrin and the Roman prefect of Judea, Pontius Pilate....
The task is daunting because almost our entire understanding of events comes from five divergent accounts, each of which was written by a Christian (who did not witness the final days of Jesus directly) for a distinct audience from thirty-five to seventy years after the trial. Second, there ...
The leaders then took Jesus before Pontius Pilate, the Roman prefect (governor) of Judea, where he was put on trial. The stories told in the Gospels claim that Pilate was reluctant to find Jesus guilty but was pushed toward the verdict by a mob who wanted Jesus to be crucified. The ...
6 Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon, a man who had suffered from a skin disease. 7 While Jesus was sitting there, a woman went to him with a bottle of very expensive perfume and poured it on his head. 8 The disciples were irritated when they saw this. They asked, “Why...
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The trial of Jesus was twofold, religious and civil. First the Jewish religious authorities examined him on the charge that he had disobeyed the traditions of theHebrew Bible(Old Testament) and made blasphemous claims about himself. They adjudged him guilty. Although the punishment prescribed for ...
Even in lefty California, Trump has a firm grip on Republicans. Inside the strategy Sept. 29, 2023 Trump was the only Republican candidate facing scores of criminal charges, ranging from allegations that he conspired to overturn his 2020 election defeat to ...
Trump was the only Republican candidate facing scores of criminal charges, ranging from allegations that he conspired to overturn his 2020 election defeat to his current trial on allegations he falsified business records in seeking illegally to sway the 2016 election with hush money to ...
Arrest, Trial and Execution Christian belief holds that Jesus came with his followers to Jerusalem during the Passover festival, and created a disturbance at the Temple by overturning the tables of the moneychangers there. He was subsequently arrested on the orders of the Sanhedrin and the high...
Jesus Is Tested in the Wilderness - Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and