powerful testimony). Robinson attempts to dodge the evidence of the good confession Jesus made before the high priest by raising the question of where the crime of blasphemy was involved. Does the claim to be the Messiah mean blasphemy? Was the high priest a Sadducee, hostile to any Messianic claim? The fundamental issue that Jesus was claiming to be God is thus evaded in spite of the explicit declarations of the Gospel narratives. There is no evidence whatsoever to support Robinson’s proposition