Posted: Aug 20, 2011 8:39 pm
Alan B: those are more attempted lynchings than executions, aren't they? Mobs rarely act under colour of law. There's all kinds of anti-Jewish rhetoric going on in the NT, so these accounts have to be taken with a mountain of salt.
As Zwaarddijk says, Jewish legal powers were curtailed by the Roman occupation. The high priest had to take advantage of a brief imperial power vacuum to stone James, brother of Jesus, and got himself deposed over it.
As Zwaarddijk says, Jewish legal powers were curtailed by the Roman occupation. The high priest had to take advantage of a brief imperial power vacuum to stone James, brother of Jesus, and got himself deposed over it.