Who Killed Jesus? by John Dominic Crossan

Author:John Dominic Crossan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1995-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

Why does John mention Annas? Does he have special historical information not known to any of the other evangelists? Recall before proceeding that Mark never names the high priest who judged Jesus, that Matthew 26:3 and 26:57 name him as Caiaphas, that Luke 3:2 mentions “the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas,” and that Acts 4:6 has “Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family.” John, however, names Annas in 18:13, 24 and Caiaphas in 11:49; 18:13, 24, 28. It is John alone, therefore, who has Jesus and Annas confront each other during the passion narrative. Why?

One advantage of talking about Herod without any further specification was that, as seen above, the total Christian animosity to Herod the Great, Herod Antipas, and Herod Agrippa I could be encapsulated in one name. Herod, was, like Caesar, the enemy. Which Herod or which Caesar was secondary to that basic fact and possibly irrelevant for popular narrative in any case.

Similarly with the name or house of Annas (Theissen 1991:174). Figure 3 is a basic family tree of that house’s control of the high priesthood up to the arrival of the Zealots in Jerusalem during the First Roman War (all rule dates are C.E.).

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