Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Foreword
- The Zealots and Jesus
- The revolution theory from Reimarus to Brandon
- The date and character of Mark
- Some observations on Tendenzkritik
- Argumentum e silentio
- The Poor and the Zealots
- The opposition between Jesus and Judaism
- Judaeo-Christianity and the Jewish establishment, A.D. 33–66
- A.D. 70 in Christian reflection
- The trial of Jesus in the Acta Pilati
- Christ as brigand in ancient anti-Christian polemic
- Jesus as a political agent in a version of the Josippon
- The Feeding of the Multitude
- The coin of ‘Render unto Caesar …’ (A note on some aspects of Mark 12: 13–17; Matt. 22: 15–22; Luke 20:20–26)
- Render to Caesar
- The Temple tax
- ‘Not peace but a sword’: Matt. 10:34ff; Luke 12: 51ff
- The decision of the Supreme Court to put Jesus to death (John 11:47–57) in its context: tradition and redaction in the Gospel of John
- The ‘triumphal’ entry
- The two swords (Luke 22: 35–38)
- The titulus
- Romans 13
- Biblical criticism criticised: with reference to the Markan report of Jesus's examination before the Sanhedrin
- The political charge against Jesus (Luke 23: 2)
- The trial before Pilate
- ‘His witness is true’: A test of the Johannine claim
- Index of Authors
- Index of References
The political charge against Jesus (Luke 23: 2)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Foreword
- The Zealots and Jesus
- The revolution theory from Reimarus to Brandon
- The date and character of Mark
- Some observations on Tendenzkritik
- Argumentum e silentio
- The Poor and the Zealots
- The opposition between Jesus and Judaism
- Judaeo-Christianity and the Jewish establishment, A.D. 33–66
- A.D. 70 in Christian reflection
- The trial of Jesus in the Acta Pilati
- Christ as brigand in ancient anti-Christian polemic
- Jesus as a political agent in a version of the Josippon
- The Feeding of the Multitude
- The coin of ‘Render unto Caesar …’ (A note on some aspects of Mark 12: 13–17; Matt. 22: 15–22; Luke 20:20–26)
- Render to Caesar
- The Temple tax
- ‘Not peace but a sword’: Matt. 10:34ff; Luke 12: 51ff
- The decision of the Supreme Court to put Jesus to death (John 11:47–57) in its context: tradition and redaction in the Gospel of John
- The ‘triumphal’ entry
- The two swords (Luke 22: 35–38)
- The titulus
- Romans 13
- Biblical criticism criticised: with reference to the Markan report of Jesus's examination before the Sanhedrin
- The political charge against Jesus (Luke 23: 2)
- The trial before Pilate
- ‘His witness is true’: A test of the Johannine claim
- Index of Authors
- Index of References
Summary
The narrative in Mark
The Third Gospel – by contrast with the older Gospel of Mark which Luke used – specifically states the details of the charge which was brought forward against Jesus before Pilate by the members of the Sanhedrin. Mark 15:2 indirectly carries the implication that the members of the Great Council must have declared before the Roman judge that Jesus voiced the claim to be ‘king’. Only if this is the case can Pilate's question, ‘Are you the King of the Jews?’, which in the present context has no preparation, be intelligible. Then for the first time it is recorded in 15: 3: ‘And the chief priests accused him of many things.’ At that Pilate once again directs a question to the accused: ‘Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you’ (Mark 15:4b). Jesus, who had responded to the question about his kingly claim with an unequivocal yes (verse 2c), makes no comment on the specific charges of the chief priests; this causes Pilate some perplexity (verse 5). In the following Barabbas scene the procurator's question shows that in the face of the Jewish crowd he would like to proceed on the basis of the issue of Jesus being ‘the king of the Jews’ (verse 9). At the same time however it is remarked that the chief priests had handed Jesus over ‘out of envy’ (verse 10). When the Jews demand the release of Barabbas (verse 11), Pilate asks them: ‘What then shall I do with the man whom you call the king of the Jews?’
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- Jesus and the Politics of his Day , pp. 403 - 414Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1984
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