Capital Punishment and Religion

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Capital Punishment and Religion

In this part of my coursework I have been asked to examine and

investigate the trials of Jesus from the time of his arrest to the

time of his death.

In my answer I should include the following; the role of Judas

Iscariot, the trial of Jesus before the Sanhedrin, the response by

Jesus given to the questions 'thrown' at him, and why the trial was

illegal, also I must include the trial before Pilate and how Pilate

attempted to free Jesus, and provide an outline of Jesus' punishment

and the way he was killed.

There are many reasons for why Pilate betrayed Jesus, there are a few

ideas for example in the gospels of Luke and john it is suggested that

the devil may have told Judas to betray Jesus, or it could be that

Judas was just disappointed that Jesus was not a warrior type messiah

but a peaceful messiah. This might be to do with 'Iscariot' because it

could mean 'zealot'.

The main reason suggested though that Judas betrayed Jesus because of

is that he was offered money by the Sanhedrin to betray Jesus, around

30 pieces of silver it is believed. Everybody knew that Judas like his

'fair' share of money, he regularly helped himself to the funds that

Jesus and the apostles shared.

The chief priests would have arrested Jesus earlier than they actually

did if it had not been for the feast of the Passover, they did not

want to arrest him during that time because they thought that the

people might cause riots. It was about this time that they offered

Judas the 30 pieces of silver to 'do the dirty' on Jesus.

After the Passover, Jesus was tried by the Sanhedrin, the accusation

against Jesus was that he said that he would destroy a man made

temple, and in 3 days build another temple not man made. Each

witness's evidence did not agree with the others' and so the whole of

the Sanhedrin could not find any evidence against Jesus so that they

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