Trial of Jesus
The Trial of Jesus
Jesus existed and his trial and those trials of His followers testify to His mission.
There had been no king in Jerusalem and He was descended from King David. Jesus and his cousin was also heirs in Parthia which is why the wise men of Matthew 2 had come supporting them. The people eventually proclaimed Him the highest son of David when He entered Jerusalem.[2]
He preached a kingdom at hand[3] and told us to do the same.[4] He took, [5] gave,[6] and appointed[7] the Kingdom.
The Kingdom had been on earth from generation to generation.[8] It was already there when He said He was going to take it away from the Pharisees- and to appoint it to the little flock and then He did.
The Pharisees and other Factions at the altar had plotted against Jesus during his ministry which seemed to be spreading and idea that had been presented by His Cousin John the Baptist. Herod had tried to kill them both since they were children.
In Matthew 27:1 we can see that the "...priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: 2 And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor."
In Matthew 27:11 we are told that "Jesus stood before the governor[9]: and the governor[10] asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest.[11]
His kingdom was at hand[12] but it was not of the world of Caesar noir Pontius Pilate.[9]
And he did not defend himself before Caesar's court for they lacked a persona Jurisdiction. But in verse 12 "he was accused of the chief priests and elders" to which He answered nothing.
In Matthew 27:19 Pilate's wife knew who Christ was and warned her husband not to do any harm to this "just man". [13]
By Matthew 27 verse 24 Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent[14] of the blood[15] of this just person[16]: see ye to it.
By washing his hands he was literally dismissing the case proclaiming he would not judge the case but proclaimed that Jesus was not only innocent but a just person[16].
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible states:
"He took water, and washed his hands before the multitude; either in conformity to a custom among the Jews, whereby they testified their innocence as to the commission of murder; see Deuteronomy 21:6, or to a Gentile one, used when murder was committed, for the lustration or expiation of it (q): saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person; though this did not clear him from all guilt in this matter: he ought to have acted the part of an upright judge, and not have yielded to the unrighteous requests of the people; he ought not to have scourged an innocent man, and much less have condemned and delivered him to be crucified, as he did; though in this he bore a testimony to the innocence of Christ,..."
Even, Barnes' Notes on the Bible tries to proclaim:
"But the mere washing of his hands did not free him from guilt. He was "bound" as a magistrate to free an innocent man; and whatever might be the clamour of the Jews, "he" was guilty at the bar of God for suffering the holy Saviour to be led to execution, in order to gratify the malice of enraged priests and the clamors of a tumultuous populace."
Clearly these commentaries are missing a comprehension of the Roman court.
In the Gospel of Nicodemus Pilate washses hands:
Chapter 6
19 All the Jews replied to Pilate, he is the very person whom Herod sought to have slain. 20 Then Pilate taking water, washed his hands before the people and said, I am innocent of the blood of this just person; look ye to it 2[35]. 21 The Jews answered and said, His blood be upon us and our children.
Chapter 9Joseph of Arimathea said
10 The God whom you have hanged upon the cross, is able to deliver me out of your hands. All your wickedness will return upon you. 11 For the governor, when he washed his hands, said, I am clear from the blood of this just person. But ye answered and cried out, His blood be upon us and our children. According as ye have said, may ye perish for ever... [25] Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
Mark (15:15), Luke (23:24), and John (19:16).
- ↑ Degeneration of the family
- “Even amongst women there were symptoms of revolt against the older order, which showed itself in a growing freedom of manners and impatience of control, the marriage tie was relaxed…" Encyclopedia Britannica ‘57 Vol. 19 p 490.2
- The “sanctity of marriage had ceased… Abortion, and the exposure and murder of newly-born children, were common and tolerated; unnatural vices, which even the greatest philosophers practiced, if not advocated, attained proportions which defy description.” Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, By Alfred Edersheim, Chapter XI.
- "Men nowadays no longer secretly, but openly outrage the wives of others, and allow others access to their own wives. A match is thought countrified, uncivilized, in bad style, and to be protested against by all matrons, if the husband should forbid his wife to appear in public in a litter, and to be carried about exposed to the gaze of all observers. If a man has not made himself notorious by a liaison with some mistress, if he does not pay an annuity to some one else's wife, married women speak of him as a poor-spirited creature, a man given to low vice, a lover of servant girls. Soon adultery becomes the most respectable form of marriage, and widowhood and celibacy are commonly practiced. No one takes a wife unless he takes her away from some one else. Now men vie with one another in wasting what they have stolen, and in collecting together what they have wasted with the keenest avarice; they become utterly reckless, scorn poverty in others, fear personal injury more than anything else, break the peace by their riots, and by violence and terror domineer over those who are weaker than themselves. No wonder that they plunder provinces and offer the seat of judgment for sale, knocking it down after an auction to the highest bidder, since it is the law of nations that you may sell what you have bought... Our ancestors before us have lamented, and our children after us will lament, as we do, the ruin of morality, the prevalence of vice, and the gradual deterioration of mankind;" On Benefits (De Beneficiis) by Seneca. See Riots
- "That the man who first ruined the Roman people twas he who first gave them treats and gratuities. But this mischief crept secretly and gradually in, and did not openly make it's appearance in Rome for a considerable time." Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus (c. 100 AD.)
- “The real destroyers of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations, and benefits.” Plutarch
- "The people who had once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else now longs eagerly for just two things, bread and circus games." Juvenal a Roman poet. See legal charity.
- ↑ Matthew 21:9 “And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed [is] he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.”
- ↑ Matthew 4:17 “From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Matthew 4:23, Matthew 9:35, Mark 1:14, Luke 4:43, Luke 8:1
- ↑ Matthew 10:7 “And as ye go, preach, saying, The Kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
- ↑ Kingdom Taken
- Matthew 2:6 "And thou Bethlehem, [in] the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor(2233), that shall rule my people Israel."
- Matthew 9:16 "No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse. 17 Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved." Jesus did not just reform the kingdom.
- Matthew 21:43 "Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof." Jesus would take it as priest and king.
- Luke 13:9 "And if it bear fruit, [well]: and if not, [then] after that thou shalt cut it down." The Corbans of the world were covetous practices
- John 19:15...19 "But they cried out, Away with [him], away with [him], crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar." The kingdom taken by the words of their own mouth.
- John 15:4 "Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me." The people must seek The Way.
- John 15:8 "Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples."
- Luke 12:32 "Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom."
- Luke 22:29 "And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;"
- Mark 15:26 And the superscription of his accusation was written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS."
- Acts 17:7 "Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus."
- 1 Peter 2:9 "But ye [are] a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:"
- See Taking and Giving the Kingdom
- ↑ Luke 12:32 “Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.”
- ↑ “...I appoint unto you a Kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto Me;” Luke 22:29
- ↑ Daniel 4:3 “...how mighty [are] His wonders! His Kingdom [is] an everlasting Kingdom, and His dominion [is] from generation to generation. (Daniel 4:34, Lamentations 5:19] ...thy throne from generation to generation.)
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Not of this world
- John 17:6-18“6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: ... 9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, ... 11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, ... 12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.”
- John 18:33 "Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again, and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews?... 36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence. 37 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice."
- John 19:19 "And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS."
- ↑ 2232 ἡγεμών hegemon [hayg-em-ohn’] from 2233; n m; AV-governor 19, ruler 2, prince 1; 22
- 1) a leader of any kind, a guide, ruler, prefect, president, chief, general, commander, sovereign
- 1a) a "legatus Caesaris," an officer administering a province in the name and with the authority of the Roman emperor
- 1a1) the governor of a province
- 1b) a procurator, an officer who was attached to a proconsul or a proprietor and had charge of the imperial revenues
- 1b1) in causes relating to these revenues he administered justice. In the smaller provinces also, which were so to speak appendages of the greater, he discharged the functions of governor of the province; and such was the relation of the procurator of Judaea to the governor of Syria.
- 1c) first, leading, chief
- 1d) of a principal town as the capital of the region
- 1a) a "legatus Caesaris," an officer administering a province in the name and with the authority of the Roman emperor
- Hegemony from a Greek term that translates “dominance over” and describes the relations between city-states.
- A hegemon a political state having dominant influence or authority over others, hegemonic ideas.
- Archon means "ruler" or "lord", In ancient Greece the chief magistrate in various Greek city states.
- 1) a leader of any kind, a guide, ruler, prefect, president, chief, general, commander, sovereign
- ↑ Another King
- Acts 17:7 "Whom Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus."
- Matthew 2:1 "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, 2 Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him."
- Matthew 27:11 "And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest."
- Matthew 27:37 "And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS."
- Mark 15:26 "And the superscription of his accusation was written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS."
- John 6:15 "When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone."
- John 17:6-18“6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: ... 9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, ... 11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, ... 12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.”
- John 18:33 "Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again, and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews?... 36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence. 37 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice."
- John 19:19 "And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS."
- ↑ Kingdom at hand
- Luke 21:31 “So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.”
- Matthew 3:2 “And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
- Matthew 4:17 “From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
- Matthew 10:7 “And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
- Mark 1:15 “And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.”
- Luke 22:16 “16 For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” and then he ate
- Luke 24:41-43 “36 And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you... 41 And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat? 42 And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. 43 And he took it, and did eat before them.”
- ↑ Matthew 27:19 "When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him."
- ↑ 121. αθωος athoos ath’-o-os; from 1 (as a negative particle) and probably a derivative of 5087 (meaning a penalty); not guilty: — innocent.
- ↑ 129 αἷμα haima [hah’-ee-mah] of uncertain derivation; n n; TDNT-1:172,26; [{See TDNT 31 }]
AV-blood 99; 99
- 1) blood
- 1a) of man or animals
- 1b) refers to the seat of life
- 1c) of those things that resemble blood, grape juice
- 2) blood shed, to be shed by violence, slay, murder
- 1) blood
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 1342 ~δίκαιος~ dikaios \@dik’-ah-yos\@ from 1349; adj AV-righteous 41, just 33, right 5, meet 2; 81
- 1) righteous, observing divine laws
- 1a) in a wide sense, upright, righteous, virtuous, keeping the commands of God
- 1a1) of those who seem to themselves to be righteous, who pride themselves to be righteous, who pride themselves in their virtues, whether real or imagined
- 1a2) innocent, faultless, guiltless
- 1a3) used of him whose way of thinking, feeling, and acting is wholly conformed to the will of God, and who therefore needs no rectification in the heart or life
- 1a3a) only Christ truly
- 1a4) approved of or acceptable of God
- 1b) in a narrower sense, rendering to each his due and that in a judicial sense, passing just judgment on others, whether expressed in words or shown by the manner of dealing with them
- 1a) in a wide sense, upright, righteous, virtuous, keeping the commands of God
- 1) righteous, observing divine laws