Jesus Sentenced by the High Priest Caiphas in the Great Sanhedrin – Project Gutenberg
The night had been long, but the emotion packed evening by the disciples with their Jewish Hasidic Master Yehoshua HaMaschiah (Jesus the Messiah) was now over. They were given their final teachings of the sublime relationships between they, YHVH the Father in heaven and His Messiah that was powerfully and emotionally imprinted in their minds. They strolled by the Palace of the High Priest in route to the garden site of prayer as they watched, prayed and then slept as heaven and hell were wrestling in the mind of their “Master”. Here was the “One” whom tens of thousands of Jews in Galilee and Judea now recognized as the anointed Messiah.
In the stillness of the night, Jesus (Yahshua) was arrested by the Temple guard in a midnight raid in the Garden District at the Village of Geshemonim. He was now heavily guarded while arraigned and placed in solitary confinement in the dungeon pit below the Palace of the High Priest. There he submitted to intensive interrogation by the ruthless Patriarch of the most powerful Sadducee High Priestly family in Judea, the House of Hanan ruled by the former High Priest of Israel, Ananias the Elder.
The interrogation even under force failed to achieve the proper and convincing evidence for a swift conviction of the Galilean rabbi that a majority of the peasant Jews in Galilee and many of the House of Herod, and the priestly Levites hailed as the New Messiah of Israel. He had more qualifications that any other aspirant Princes of David, since Kings David and Solomon. He was truly a prince of the esteemed royal lineage King’s David and Solomon. His family were respected and revered in Jewish society. They were the honored rebels and Zealots that were seeking to topple Rome. It was their goal to return Judea back to the Torah theocracy of Kings David and Solomon and the visions of a Greater Israel whose geo-political influence from “sea to shining sea” would again bring honor and justice back under the rule of the G-d of Israel.
BibleSearchers Reflection Series
Looking at the Death of Yahshua (Jesus) from the Perspective of First Century Judaism
“The Trial of Yehoshua (Jesus) before the Great Sanhedrin in Jerusalem”
Yet, the night was soon gone, and the morning sun would reveal the sinister intentions of the High Priests of Judea. All the members of the Great Sanhedrin were called from their slumber to the Council of Hewn Stones (Lishkath Hagazith) to attend the most important session since 37 BCE when they marked their lives and voted Jewish justice over the rising and ruthless power of King Herod the Great. Like the signers of the Declaration of Independence, most of them lost their lives over that decision.
Contrary to most modern opinions, many within the Great Sanhedrin were silent and hidden followers of the Jewish Messiah. And through the trial, the testimony of numerous witnesses was brought forth. The ebb and flow of arguments for and again Jesus (Yahshua) ricocheted from side of the Council of Hewn Stones to another until a dramatic vote was cast. Was the Galilean rabbi sentenced or was He acquitted? The historical testimony is shocking.
Pandemonium reign supreme as the High Priest Caiphas took control of the entire proceedings and in a reverse of judgment, he pronounced the sentence to bypass the ruling of the Great Sanhedrin and proceeded to make a dramatic decision to place the sentence of the man the Jewish populous desired above all to be their Messiah in the hands of Roman justice. Welcome to the new research by BibleSearchers on what may be the missing elements in the capture, arraignment, and trial of Jesus the Messiah (Yahshua HaMaschiah).
BibleSearchers Reflection Series
Looking at the Death of Yahshua (Jesus) from the Perspective of First Century Judaism
“The Trial of Yehoshua (Jesus) before the Great Sanhedrin in Jerusalem”
Was the Trial and Crucifixion Jewish or was it Roman? The verdict had not yet been reached.
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The Cosmic Passover Drama when Yehoshua died on the Tree”
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“The Final Teachings of the Hasidic Master Yehoshua HaMaschiach”
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“The Arrest and Interrogation of Rabbi Yehoshua in the Palace of the High Priest”
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“The Trial of Yehoshua (Jesus) before the Sanhedrin” – Open Now
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“The Chief Priests and Elders that Presided in the Sanhedrin Trial” – Coming Later
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“The Trial Yehoshua (Jesus) before the Roman Procurator Pontius Pilate” – Coming Soon