This section serves one purpose, namely to show how Jesus was condemned by the Jewish court and finally rejected as Israel’s Messiah. The proceedings are more like an arraignment than an official trial. The object seems to have been to fasten some accusation of indictable offense on Jesus, which will make it inevitable that he should be transferred to Pilate’s court. We can show the evidence for this way of regarding the text from one or two examples. A trial
Mark 14:53–56