The authority of christ over trials

No doctrine is the truth unless it has the right authority, and no authority is valid unless it is based squarely on truth. Jesus Christ passes this test. The authority of Christ preceded his life in this world, and even the world itself. Notice what John says If the Word was God, he had all the attributes of God, including the authority of God, and there is no higher authority.

Did only the Father have authority to speak the worlds into existence? What authority did the Word have, that he could create all authorities in heaven and on earth? It could be no less than the authority of God, for all lesser authorities were those he created. Consider these things. The Word had all authority in heaven and on earth.

Did the Word lose any of his authority when he became human? The Word certainly suffered a loss, and emptied himself of much, when he became flesh. There is no doubt about that. But did he lose his authority? That is a very, very important question. They believe he gave up that authority and did not regain it until after his death and resurrection.

There was a three-judge court, which was the lowest and most elementary form of government; this corresponded roughly to our local Justice of the Peace courts, or to our municipal courts today. Next above this lowest court, there existed in many of the cities, and wherever the people desired and approved it, a Junior Sanhedrin Council which consisted of twenty-three judges. Then over and above these courts was the senior or major Sanhedrin Council, consisting of 71 judges.

Qualifications for men of the senior Sanhedrin were exactly prescribed by law. Jewish law provided for these three separate kinds of courts, and they existed and commonly tried cases within their respective jurisdictions.

In any study of the trial of Jesus it must be remembered that it had two parts or two phases — a Jewish part and a Roman part. In the Jewish phase of his trial, Jesus was first arrested and taken to Annas; then he was tried before Caiaphas, and then by the Sanhedrin Council of the Jews in two sessions, a night session and a morning session. This consummated the trial of the Son of God at the hands of the Jews.

Being sentenced to death, he then began the Roman phase of his trial. He was taken first to Pilate. Pilate examined him, and sent him to Herod.

He was tried by Herod, and returned to Pilate. Again Pilate examined him, and then turned him over to the mob, weakly trying to exonerate himself of blame by the symbolic act of washing his hands. So, while there were two phases or parts to the trial, there were in reality six separate trials: before Annas, Caiaphas, the Sanhedrin; and before Pilate. Herod, and Pilate again. There were a number of sources from which law came then, just as a number of sources fix our law today.

If one were to examine the source of law in our generation, he would find that in many states law is statutory primarily. For example, Louisiana is recognized in our nation as being the state in which we find the most complete example of statutory law. But according to the old English common law, not every statute had to be enacted by a legislative body. Much of. And when a decision of the courts had not been made to guide in the trial of a given case, then customary practice was given authority.

Customary practice ran according to this rule: In the absence of a statute, and in the absence of the decision of a court, if a thing had been customarily practiced over such a long period of time that the memory of man ran not to the contrary nobody could remember when such was not the practice , then this customary practice became the rule and the law to govern in the decision of that particular case.

The Roman practice, however, was to codify their law; and everything had to be provided for in statute. While the State of Louisiana is the principal statutory state in the nation, the State of Tennessee is recognized as the principle common law state among us. Texas is a combination of both statutory and common law. Just as we receive our laws today from these various sources, the laws in the time of Christ, both Jewish and Roman, were likewise gathered over the centuries from various sources.

Notify me of new posts via email. Blog at WordPress. Works Worship and Class Times. His disciples wrote down things he did, which if they be true, make Him more than an ordinary man. Let us examine the evidence on Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah.

You are the jury. John, the apostle and lawyer, will call to the stand seven witnesses. Then you will have to render a decision on the true identity of Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus is the Son of God, making Him deity, God in the flesh. John begins his argument in this manner, 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John the apostle begins his presentation. John the Baptist fulfilled prophecies by Isaiah and Malachi. Even Jesus revealed why His disciples made good qualified witnesses, because they had been with him from the beginning of His ministry. First, John calls Andrew, brother of Peter. In John 19, after Jesus died and a soldier pierced the side of Jesus, John said, 35 And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you may believe John Jesus affirmed that the Old Testament spoke of Him.

The Old Testament did speak of Jesus. Therefore, Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. Therefore, being a part of the Godhead, coming from the Father, His words declare the final authority. The Father sent Jesus; therefore, the Father is greater than Jesus. He is the Father of Jesus. That makes the Father the ultimate witness.

Can anyone find evil in what Jesus taught?