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A History of the Jewish People in the Time of Jesus Christ, Second Division, Vol. I is unavailable, but you can change that!

With this text you gain a window into the world in which Jesus lived. This volume answers fundamental questions on the political environment of the Jews in the first century. Few resources can match this book in terms of precision and quality of information.

unhistorical.528 Although on the occasion on which Jesus was condemned to death (Mark 14:53 ff.; Matt. 26:57 ff.) the Sanhedrim happened to meet in the palace of the high priest, we must regard this as an exception to the rule, rendered necessary by the simple fact of its having met during the night. For at night the gates of the temple mount were shut.529 . This, according to the account of it given in the Mishna, was as follows.530 The members of the court sat in a semicircle
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