Series: The Injustice of the Cross
Title: A Rush to Injustice - the Religious Trials
Ref: John 18:12-14; 19:24; Matthew 26:57-68; Luke 22:66-71

By Jewish standards all of the religious trials were completely and unequivocally _____________________.

The Pharisees were losing their ________________________.
The Sadducees were losing their _________________________.

Annas: The ___________________________

Annas controlled the _______________________ and the __________________________.

Annas needed to give his _________________________ for to move forward with the arraignment.

Caiaphas: The __________________________

They were not trying to “discover” facts, they were trying to substantiate their ___________________________.

Sanhedrin: The ___________________________

The Sanhedrin met to give it an _________________________of legality.

Jesus is in ______________________ of these proceedings!

Lessons:
The tighter the grip you have on the things of the world, the _______________________________God has on your heart.

The Christian’s ________________________ stretches into eternity, where God will rightly judge the hearts and minds of men.

Where sinful man ruled, God ________________________ so that we could be saved.