His Trial Before the Sanhedrin

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In the Gospel of Luke it appears that the guards brought Jesus from the home of Annas to the place where Caiaphas and others were up and waiting to hear from the guards and from there they took Him to the Palace where he was tried by the Sanhedrin. In Luke, much of what we studied in the last lesson occurred at the trial before the Sanhedrin. Matthew and Mark appears to tell us that the trial before Caiaphas was the same and the one recorded in Luke as the trial before the Sanhedrin.

My best guess is that the trial before Caiaphas occurred as recorded in Matthew and Mark and that the court was made up of most of the Sanhedrin and that after they had rendered their judgment and further persecuted Him, took Him aside and confined Him to a room under the guard of those who arrested Him, and then, as stated in Matthew 27:1, "when morning came, they gathered together to take council to determine how they could put Him to death. It was here that they realized that they did not have the power of life and death over Jesus and decided that they would have to take Him to Pilate, the Roman Governor, to accomplish this.


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