The trial of Jesus as narrated in the Gospels does not violate the letter of the written law; therefore, the accounts of Jewish involvement cannot be so easily dismissed on technical grounds. 2 We are ...

"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Judaea apart from the trial of Jesus," study co-author Avner Ecker, an epigrapher, or researcher of ancient inscriptions, at the Hebrew ...

Stephen, Paul, and Jesus The trial of Stephen and the trial of Paul may well be relevant in a variety of ways to Luke's understanding of the death of Jesus. It is commonly observed, for example, that ...

The chief goal of God’s process in taking us through trials is to make us look more and more like Jesus. Peter says basically the same thing in 1 Peter 1:6-7: “In this you rejoice, though now ...

Jesus was put on trial by the high priest and found guilty of blasphemy. He was taken to see Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor, who was responsible for keeping the peace and deciding who could be ...

The Roman governor, Pilate, was the only person who could legally sentence Jesus to death. So the Jewish leaders sent Jesus to him for a second trail, hoping he would be found guilty and put to death.

Douglas Lovell was charged in 1992 for the 1985 murder of Joyce Yost to prevent her from testifying against him in a trial that he raped her.