Labels:text | screenshot OCR: The Trial of Jesus As the Jewish high priest and leader of the Sadducees, I kept my eye on Jesus. His followers kept increasing in number. We didn't like what we heard about him-not one bit We sent messengers to try to trap Jesus into saying something we could arrest him for, but he kept outwitting us. It looked bad. He was obtaining more and more followers, every day. They even talked of revolution. When a rumor started circulating that Jesus had raised someone from the dead (for more on this, see the home pages of Martha and Mary and Lazarus), I called all the Pharisees and Sadducees together and asked them what we were going to do about Jesus. We couldn't leave him alone. If we did, the whole nation would rebel with him. Then the Roman army would destroy our country and our temple. We j ...
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