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Updated: May 24, 2025
Then the deepest reason for the Sanhedrin's bitterness leaks out in the charge of inciting the mob to take vengeance on them for the death of Jesus. It was true that the Apostles had charged that guilt home on them, but not on them only, but on the whole nation, so that no incitement to revenge lay in the charge.
'Do men gather grapes of thorns? Many a time since then Christianity has been treated as criminal, because of its beneficence to bodies and souls. But Peter rises to the full height of the occasion, when he answers the Sanhedrin's question with the pealing forth of his Lord's name.
Persecutors, clothed with a little brief authority, are strangely blind to the plainest indications of the truth spoken by their victims. Annas did not know what a question about the escape might bring out, so he took the safer course of charging the Twelve with disobedience to the Sanhedrin's prohibition. How characteristic of all his kind that is!
They saw the rabble, who a few brief moments before had followed him, shouting 'Hosanna, slinking away from him to shout with his foes. "They saw the high priests in their robes of white, with the rabbis and doctors, all the great and learned in the land, sitting late into the night beneath the vaulted roof of the Sanhedrin's council-hall, plotting his death.
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