TRIALS OF JESUS: EVIDENCE CONCLUSIONS AND AFTERMATH THE

See the Passion narrative like you’ve never seen it before.

The Gospels describe a complex chain of events from Jesus’s arrest to his crucifixion—interrogations from multiple high priests, a confrontation with Herod the Tetrarch, and finally Pontius Pilate’s unusual hesitancy leading to Jesus’s execution. The narrative raises several questions: Why was Jesus interrogated so many times? Why was he executed not by the high priests, but by the Romans? What are serious readers of Scripture to make of this narrative, central as it is to the Christian faith?

Paul Barnett sheds light on the story behind the Passion, Resurrection, and the subsequent birth of the church. Barnett fills readers in on the four hundred years of history between Malachi and Matthew, setting the geopolitical stage for the very crux of salvation history. With rich context and expert storytelling, The Trials of Jesus will intrigue and enlighten scholars and everyday Christians alike.

Table of Contents

1. The Night He “Was Betrayed”
2. The Persians
3. Hellenism
4. “Zeal” for the Lord
5. The Maccabean Dynasty
6. The Romans
7. The Intruding Idumeans
8. Alliance of Antony and Herod
9. Herod the “Great”
10. Archelaus, Ethnarch of Judea, Idumea, and Samaria
11. Judea
12. The Governor of Judea and the Outbreak of Prophecy
13. Jesus, Prophet and Rabbi
14. The Galilean Blasphemer
15. Annas and Caiaphas
16. Pontius Pilate
17. Herod Antipas
18. The Jewish Trials
19. The Roman Trial of Jesus according to Mark, Matthew, and Luke
20. The Roman Trial according to John
21. Herod Antipas, Jesus, and Pilate
22. The Testimonium Flavianum
23. The Lamb without Blemish in the Gospel of Mark
24. The Annas Vendetta
25. The Passing of the Judges
26. Antinomy
27. The Birth of the Church