Three Jewish Trials for our Lord

I. The First Trial – Christ Standing before Annas -- Luke 22:54a;
John 18:12-14, 19-24

A.  The soldiers arrested him  John 18:12

B.  Why did they take Him first to Annas?  A Little History.

C.  The Trial Before Annas  John 18:19-23 

II. The Second Trial -- Christ before Caiaphas -- John 18:24;
Matthew 26:57-61; Luke 22:63-65

A.  Christ Examined before the Sanhedrin -- Matt. 26:57-61

B.  Are you the Christ, the Son of God?  Matt. 26:62-63
	1.  The oath was brilliant strategy by Caiaphas
	2.  The charge was devilishly laid out.
	3.  Christ's Confession -- Matthew 26:64
	4.  The charge was the one that would be most inflammatory to 	the Jewish Sanhedrin – blasphemy – Matthew 26:65-68
	5.  Jesus beaten by the Jewish Temple Guards  -- Luke 22:63-65

III. The Third “Mock” Trial – Before the Sanhedrin -- Luke 22:66-71