The Trial

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How, and by whom was Jesus judged? Was Jesus tried once or twice? Was there a Jewish trial and a Roman trial? Are there two different stories of Jesus: one told from the Jewish viewpoint, the other from the Roman viewpoint? In the Gospel according to Saint John, the Roman prefect Pontius Pilate seems to want to save Jesus from his torture. Can this attitude be reconciled with the fierce portrait of Pilate painted by Jewish historians of the time? Why did the Evangelists try to exonerate Pilate and accuse the Jews? Can this enable us to definitively date when the texts were written? Or to determine what their theological and ideological issues were?