Immediately after his arrest, the high priest Caiaphas broke Jewish customs to hold a hearing and decide Jesus's fate. The night Jesus was arrested, he was taken to the high priest’s house for a ...

The chief priests sent an armed crowd to arrest Jesus. They were obviously expecting trouble from the disciples . One of them (identified as Peter in John’s Gospel) drew his sword and cut off ...

Any reader of the Gospels knows the sequence, though it varies somewhat in each of them. The earliest Gospels, composed at least a generation after Jesus’ death, blamed the chief priests and ...

The Johannine scenario that Jesus was brought before the high priest and questioned about his disciples and teachings makes more sense in a pre-resurrection context than the Synoptic inquiry about ...

But the chief priests of the ancient Jewish temple at Jerusalem see Jesus as a charismatic and popular Jewish preacher who challenges their authority. They have Jesus arrested and tried before ...

Hostility to Jesus had been mounting from the beginning of his ministry. The on-going conflict with the religious leaders leads to this point. Jesus’ enemies, the chief priests and the elders ...

A detail from “Christ before Pilate,” by Mihály Munkácsy (1881). Based on John 18 and 19 and Luke 23, it depicts Jesus standing between his accusers and a hesitant Roman governor Pontius Pilate.