{"id":5898,"date":"2014-01-30T21:20:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T02:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=5898"},"modified":"2014-01-30T21:20:27","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T02:20:27","slug":"zarley-did-jesus-tell-the-sanhedrin-he-was-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/zarley-did-jesus-tell-the-sanhedrin-he-was-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Zarley: Did Jesus Tell the Sanhedrin He Was God?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5899\" alt=\"jesus and priest caifas\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/jesus-and-priest-caifas.jpg\" width=\"705\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/jesus-and-priest-caifas.jpg 705w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/jesus-and-priest-caifas-300x255.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/jesus-and-priest-caifas-420x357.jpg 420w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/jesus-and-priest-caifas-460x391.jpg 460w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/jesus-and-priest-caifas-90x77.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/> Another good post by Kermit Zarley on his <a title=\"Kermit Zarley blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is most significant that neither the witnesses nor Sanhedrin members accused Jesus of ever claiming to be God. Jews had so accused Jesus twice in his career; yet both times he denied their accusation (<a title=\"this passage, NRSV\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+5.16-47&amp;version=NRSV\" target=\"_blank\">John 5.16-47<\/a>; <a title=\"this passage in NRSV\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+10.30-38&amp;version=NRSV\" target=\"_blank\">10.30-38<\/a>). Apparently, they accepted his denial.<\/p>\n<p>John A.T. Robinson rightly maintains that if Jesus had ever claimed to be God, \u201cit is inconceivable\u2026 that it should not come out in the charges against him at the trial, where again the worst that can be said about him is that he claimed to be \u2018God\u2019s son.&#8217;\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read <a title=\"Zarley on Jesus's \" href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2014\/01\/did-jesus-tell-the-sanhedrin-he-was-god\/\" target=\"_blank\">the whole thing<\/a> to find out why they accused Jesus of &#8220;blasphemy&#8221; on that occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another good post by Kermit Zarley on his blog. It is most significant that neither the witnesses nor Sanhedrin members accused Jesus of ever claiming to be God. Jews had so accused Jesus twice in his career; yet both times he denied their accusation (John 5.16-47; 10.30-38). Apparently, they accepted his denial. John A.T. Robinson&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/zarley-did-jesus-tell-the-sanhedrin-he-was-god\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zarley: Did Jesus Tell the Sanhedrin He Was God?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible","category-christology","category-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5902,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898\/revisions\/5902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}