WHETHER OR NOT THERE WAS A REGULAR LEGAL TRIAL OF JESUS BEFORE THE GREAT SANHEDRIN 183 WHETHER OR NOT THE RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE PRESCRIBED IN THE MISHNA WERE IN EXISTENCE AND ACTIVELY IN FORCE IN JUDEA AT THE TIME OF THE TRIAL OF JESUS 186 THE NATURE OF THE CHARGE BROUGHT AGAINST JESUS AT THE TRIAL BEFORE THE GREAT SANHEDRIN; AND HIS GUILT OR INNOCENCE WITH REFERENCE THERETO 187 POINT I: CONCERNING THE LEGALITY OF THE ARREST OF JESUS IN GETHSEMANE 219 POINT II: CONCERNING THE LEGALITY OF THE PRIVATE EXAMINATION OF JESUS BY ANNAS (OR CAIAPHAS) BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF THE REGULAR TRIAL 238 POINT III: CONCERNING THE LEGALITY OF THE INDICTMENT AGAINST JESUS 248 POINT IV: CONCERNING THE LEGALITY OF TRYING JESUS AT NIGHT 255 POINT V: CONCERNING THE LEGALITY OF TRYING JESUS BEFORE THE MORNING SACRIFICE HAD BEEN OFFERED 260 POINT VI: CONCERNING THE LEGALITY OF TRYING JESUS ON THE EVE OF A JEWISH SABBATH AND AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CELEBRATION OF THE PASSOVER FEAST 263 POINT VII: CONCERNING THE LEGALITY OF CONCLUDING THE TRIAL OF JESUS WITHIN ONE DAY 267 POINT VIII: CONCERNING THE LEGALITY OF CONVICTING JESUS UPON HIS UNCORROBORATED CONFESSION 271 POINT IX: CONCERNING THE LEGALITY OF A UNANIMOUS VERDICT AGAINST JESUS 279 POINT X: CONCERNING CERTAIN IRREGULARITIES OF FORM IN TRYING AND CONDEMNING JESUS 287 POINT XI: CONCERNING THE LEGAL DISQUALIFICATIONS OF MEMBERS OF THE GREAT SANHEDRIN, TO TRY JESUS 295 POINT XII: CONCERNING THE LEGALITY OF THE REFUSAL OF THE GREAT SANHEDRIN TO CONSIDER THE MERITS OF THE DEFENSE OF JESUS 309 PREFACE TO VOLUME ONE Many remarkable trials have characterized the judicial history of mankind. The trial of Socrates before the dicastery of Athens, charged with corrupting Athenian youth, with blaspheming the Olympic gods, and with seeking to destroy the constitution of the Attic Republic, is still a sublime and thrilling chapter in the history of a wonderful people, among the ruins and wrecks of whose genius the modern world still wanders to contemplate, admire, and study the pride of every master and the perfection of every model.