Was Jesus granted a fair trial?

Question

Or were the judges a bit biased?

Answer 1

a BIT?

Answer 2

Jesus did not have a fair trial as this would have changed the outcome due to the fact that he had done no wrong. His fate was planned by God and so not having a fair trial was just part of the overall picture/plan. People do this to others all the time nowadays, juding people of what others say and think about them without actually finding out the facts first.

Answer 3

No it was not a fair trial. There were no judges. Caiaphas questioned Jesus and he did not want to make a decision so he passed the buck to Pilate. Pilate could not find a lawful reason to do anything to Jesus but because he was having his own problems with the Roman governor he let the chief priests and other Jewish leaders trade Barabbas freedom for Jesus

Answer 4

As djfjedi19 posted, the night trial was illegal. Indeed, at least seven laws under the Mosaic law covenant were blatantly violated by the religious leaders during this farce of a trial, among them bribery (Deuteronomy 16:19 and 27:25), bearing false witness (Exodus 20:16), and mob action or following a crowd to do evil (Exodus 23:2, 3).

Hannah

Answer 5

Of course they were biased.

Judges are still biased today.... just not so blatantly.

But in any case, yes they were biased.
As far as they were concerned, Jesus was a heretic and a threat to the stability of the mind-control regime they already had in place over their people.
As it happens though, executing him was rather the wrong choice, and actually made the resultant personality-cult situation worse. Of course when the Romans discovered that the Jesus-cult had got out of hand, they adopted it as their own and fused it with the old beliefs to take its strength as their own.... then reshaped it as they saw fit, pretty much.

From start to finish, pretty much... Jesus was just a tool. Sucked to be him... really. But then he knew what was coming to him early on, and still went ahead and did it. Much respect to the guy for being willing to die for what he believed in.... and a sodding shame that his disciples went and messed it up, turning it into the personality-cult that we now know as christianity.

Answer 6

Someone said - Pilate let Barnabas go free - it was actually Barabbas!

Of course the trial wasn't fair - the Pharisees came along and lied about things Christ had said BUT as Christ HAD to die to become a propitiation and He had done nothing wrong - it HAD to be an unfair trial!

Answer 7

No it was totally illegal in the Jewish law to hold a trial after midnight like the first one so that is why they sent him to Pilate come the morning ,and what did he say pontius pilate ?
His words at Luke 23 v 13 - 15 highlight this.

Answer 8

Jesus went willingly. But yes, his "trial" was biased indeed. Pilate let Barnabas the murderer go free, instead of Christ; at the request of the Jews.

Answer 9

The Pharisees were embarassed that their hypocrisy was showing. They threatened the Romans with an uprising if Jesus was not executed. Jesus permitted it all because that was the only way he could give Mankind a way into The Kingdom of God.

Answer 10

The Roman law was very strict and applied scrupulously, if Jesus had been given a trial he would never have been crucified, and if he was such a good man why would the people have called for his execution... it's inconceivable that the law then would have been overturned to oblige the mob?...nothing about this story rings true.

Answer 11

Virtually every aspect of the trial was unjust.
1) It was at night.
2) There were false witnesses
3) His accusers had already taken counsel to kill him
4) He was arrested at night.
5) His sentence was quickly executed.
6) He was tortured.