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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 24, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 50.

3948 — The Judges of Jesus

By C. H.

How many judges judged our Lord?

First He was brought before Annas, out of respect, because he had been the former high priest; and Annas condemned Him, altho he had no power to judge Him, and it was contrary to the Jewish law to condemn a prisoner in the night, we are told. He was next, in the morning, brought before Caiaphas, was condemned by Caiaphas for blasphemy, but Caiaphas had no power to enforce the death sentence. He was finally brought before Pilate, and the death sentence was passed on Him by Pilate. He is really the one who sentenced Him to death; and yet the very one who sentenced Him to death, Pilate, the Roman governor, declared, "I find no crime in Him."