It seems all wrong.  And it is!  The King of kings is brought before a kangaroo court.  Those who were supposed to teach others about God could not even recognise God when they saw Him.  Peter who promised to be right up in the front row supporting Jesus (Mark 14:31) is cowering behind the back row.  The one who was hot-headed about his ability to endure hostility went cold on his promise, and needed the fire to warm him up.

Jesus is still in the courtroom, where another twist to truth was about to come out.  Any intention to destroy Herod's temple would have been terrorism; and that is how the false witnesses presented what Jesus had said.  But John tells us what really happened.  "The Jews then responded to him, 'What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?'  Jesus answered them, 'Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.'  They replied, 'It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?' But the temple he had spoken of

The trial judge moved from hearing faked evidence (Mark 14:55-59) to asking the most significant question of Jesus: "Are you God's Son, anointed for the salvation and judgement of the world?"  The word, 'the Christ' in Greek was the same as 'Messiah' in Hebrew.  It is a title rather than a name, meaning - 'the Anointed One'.  In the Old Testament, three kinds of people were anointed, as a sign that they had God’s authority: firstly, the kings who should have been the pastors/shepherds of Israel, anointed to bring the rule of God’s Word to the people (Ezekiel 34:1-4); secondly, the priests w

What a pathetic sight; the larger-than-life fisherman was trying to be brave - yet he was also trying to hide.  Having daringly swung his sword at those arresting Jesus, cutting off the High Priest's servant's ear (Mark 14:47), Peter fled away from Jesus in the darkness of Gethsemane.  All the disciples ran away (Mark 14:50).  But he was the one who protested that he would never leave Jesus; he would die with Him if necessary (Mark 14:29-31).