Jesus stands before an assembly of the high priest, all the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes. False witnesses rise and tell tales meant to condemn Jesus, but their accounts don’t add up. So ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Christ is Prophet. Christ is Priest. Christ is King. This three-fold division of the mediatorial work of Jesus Christ has become traditional in Protestant ...

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 ...