What are the sources for information on the Trial of Jesus?  How do scholars divide, more or less, in their treatment of the Trial?  What are the strengths and limitations of the historical-critical method?  What sense can be made giving serious regard to Scripture, history, and theology?

The Trial of Jesus Christ by One Catholic Lawyer

Lecture I: Background and Sources

Who wanted Jesus put on trial?  What issues concerned them? What was their plan for his arrest?  What happened in the Garden of Gethsemane? Who was there? Were Romans there?

Lecture II: The Arrest

Who was Annas?  Why was Jesus taken to him first?  What was the Sanhedrin? How did it originate?  How did it change over time? What do we know (or not know) about its procedures?  What was going on with Peter in the courtyard below?​

Lecture III: The Preliminary Hearing

What happened when Jesus appeared before the Sanhedrin?  Who was there? What was he charged with? Was fair process observed?  What was he convicted of? What was the plan of the high priests having secured a conviction on religious grounds?

Lecture IV: The Jewish Trial

Who was Pontius Pilate?  Why was he involved? What was his role in conducting trials?  What laws did he care about? What laws did he not care about? Who did he really fear, and why? 

Lecture V: Pontius Pilate

What happened at Jesus’ trial before Pilate?  Why did Pilate think he was innocent? Why did Pilate send Jesus to Herod?  Who was Herod? Why did Herod send Jesus back to Pilate? Why did Pilate have Jesus scourged?  Why did Pilate have him crucified? 

Lecture VI: The Roman Trial

How did crucifixion originate?  Why did the Romans use it? How was it done?  How was it done to Jesus? What figures did Jesus meet along the way?  What day was he crucified on? What is the significance of that day in relation to the Passover Feast?

Lecture VII: The Crucifixion

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