{"content":[{"text":"claim to be the Son of God and God’s next in charge.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":-0.00023,"width":0.42801100000000003,"height":0.015784}},{"text":"It is a mistake to assert that the word translated blasphemy might just mean insolence and not necessarily insolence against \n God (page 290, The Unauthorized Version). But the reaction of the High Priest who ripped his own robes in anger and the \n way it fuelled the hatred in the rest shows blasphemy in the sense of insulting God is the correct understanding.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.03184,"width":0.9893839999999999,"height":0.047852999999999986}},{"text":"The meeting of the Sanhedrin to try Jesus all night is untrue for they were not allowed to (page 102, Jesus: the Evidence, \n page 291, The Unauthorized Version). Some say that the rules about what the Sanhedrin could not do were recorded several \n decades after it disbanded show we cannot be sure that it was not allowed (page 60, Jesus and the Four Gospels). But still it \n is most likely that the rules were used. We have no reason to assume otherwise. Why keep anybody out of their beds over \n something that could wait and should wait until after the feast? And if all they were looking for ways to make Jesus claim \n to be God’s Messiah and Son that was easy to prove and there was no need to be up all night. It was not an emergency. \n Mistakes through tiredness and impatience to get home could result from late trials so the law had to be in force for it \n makes sense.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.095979,"width":0.996371,"height":0.128027}},{"text":"Josh Mc Dowell claims that the trial of Jesus was every bit as unusual as the critics admit, and was held late for it was a \n matter of extreme seriousness, that is, the Jews had come to believe that Jesus had to be tried and put out of the way as soon \n as possible before a national crisis arose (John 11:50). This man makes me sick with his lies. If he believes that it was that \n urgent then why does he believe the story that thousands clamoured for Jesus’ death the next day? Why did the apostles get \n away to tell that Jesus was arrested if it was a national crisis?","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.240292,"width":0.998309,"height":0.07992300000000002}},{"text":"The New Testament says that the Sanhedrin employed and listened to false witnesses who were unable to agree among \n themselves. When they went to the trouble of getting perjurers they could have and would have coached them first. All the \n witnesses had to do was say Jesus claimed to be the messianic and supreme Son of God ruling out the danger of conflict. \n Perjury is so serious under Jewish Law that they would not have been careless.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.336501,"width":0.986057,"height":0.063888}},{"text":"The Jews allegedly believed that Jesus had to die or Rome would turn on them (John 11). If true then the places that accuse \n them of envy and sin are slandering them. It was self-defence. There would have been no shortage of people who would \n have been happy to assassinate Jesus. The Sanhedrin had no need to go to all that trouble and do all those reprehensible \n things that the gospels accuse them off. It wouldn’t have. It would have lost its standing with the people. Jesus himself is \n said to have pronounced that the Sanhedrin were fair (Matthew 5:22). Some think the Sanhedrin was the reason the people \n turned against Jesus. That is speculation. The people already knew that Jesus claimed to be what the Sanhedrin said he \n should die for claiming to be and saw nothing awful in it.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.416675,"width":0.992437,"height":0.11199199999999998}},{"text":"When Jesus was found deserving of death it is impossible to see why they sent him to Pilate. They may have needed \n Pilate’s permission to do away with Jesus themselves but there was no need for another trial or for Pilate to meet him. \n When they found Pilate was anxious to save Jesus’’ life and when he told them to kill him themselves for he didn’t want \n him dead they could have taken Jesus and destroyed him then in case Jesus would get off. Also, they would not have taken \n Jesus to Pilate in case he would go free in the first place. Pilate would not have tried Jesus when the Sanhedrin had already \n done it and found him guilty of capital crimes and when he heard Jesus say he was the Messiah which deserved death under \n Roman law. He would not have gone to the trouble of needlessly interviewing Jesus himself when there were plenty of \n Roman magistrates to do it.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.544953,"width":0.997705,"height":0.128027}},{"text":"THE HEROD TRIAL","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.689266,"width":0.177486,"height":0.01578400000000002}},{"text":"Jesus was allegedly tried before King Herod who found no fault with him. We are told to believe by Luke that Herod had \n not previously laid eyes on him. This is stupid for Herod must have met him before when he was keen to see his miracles \n and when Jesus was out and about meeting the public so much. Herod would have asked Jesus if he did not want political \n power then would he take it for spiritual reasons. Jesus could not say no without confessing to being a hypocrite and not a \n real Son of God. So Jesus either did not answer or he said he would. Thus Herod could not have found him innocent. He \n would have been determined to get rid of him because he would be a rival. Jesus would have been guilty of high treason. \n And Herod would have known that Jesus regarded John the Baptist as his forerunner and supreme prophet – if the gospels \n are to be believed. Herod threw John in jail for condemning his marriage to his sister-in-law, Herodias, so he would have \n done the same to Jesus who would have condemned him by implication. In fact he would have reacted quicker against \n Jesus.","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.721335,"width":0.983189,"height":0.16009700000000004}},{"text":"THE ABSURD TRIAL IN JOHN","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.897718,"width":0.27072399999999996,"height":0.01578400000000002}},{"text":"The gospel of John is totally ridiculous with its Pilate testifying that Jesus was the king of the Jews and asking them if they \n want him to crucify their king. And John’s tale of Pilate wanting to free Jesus when and because Jesus told him he had no \n power over him for it was God that allowed Pilate to detain Jesus is total madness. We read Pilate openly sympathised with \n him. If Pilate believed him how could he sympathise with him? How you sympathise for a prisoner who has the key to let","bbox":{"left":0.0,"top":0.929787,"width":0.9923960000000001,"height":0.06388899999999997}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}