The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-04-24

being teacher after the manner of
the great Judaean prophets, cham
rioned the cause OF justice and rigiiis
eousness in behalf OF the poor ard
the suffering ones. The Pharisees
surely could not have been eager tol
have the man removed who was fight
ing their battle. They were the very
ones whose life blood was being SAP
ped by the Roman procurators and
the traitors and pirates among the
Saddncean prizes 8.
no Pharisee at Trial.
One thing is absolutely certain.
no Pharisec could ever have taken
part in the trial Of Jesus as rcportal
in the gospels. Any one who has but
q supericial knowledge OF the Pha--
isaic teachings need not be told that
the court scene OF he New Testa-
ment was directly opposed to the law
OF the rabbis, Josephus does not
omit to mention the rigor Of the Sal-
ducees in criminal proceedings, rs
contrasted with the leniency and nj
manity Of the Pharisecs, and The lith
day Of the month OF Tammuz was obs
served BY them as day of rejoicing
and fsstiyity, because on 1t the cru,te
code Of the Sadducees was abolished.
At was by this code that Jesus was
tr.ed ana condemned.
According to the Pharlsalc code a
court which tried a man for his life
could nos sit at night; Jesus vas
tried and condemned at night time
According to the law Of the Phari
sees, the sentence of death, If imposed
at all, could not be imposed on the
day on which the trial began, but only
on the following day. Jesus was tried
and sentenced in one shors session.
According TO the gospels, Jesus was
condemned for blasphemy, whereas
the sanity high priest rent his gar.
m6nt In strict compliance with the
law. but according to the Pharisa'c
code, no man could be charged wita
ilasphemy unless he uttered he In
effable name, the tetragrammaton, by
way OF curse, This Jesus certainly
never did, nor is it SO reported Again.
under the Pharlsaic law, no man
could Le tried for his life on day pre-
ceding festival, in as much rs y.
ecution was forbidden on a holy day,
and thus the other legal requirement.
that he sentence had to be executed
on the day following It's finding would
nave been rpllided Cn this po.nt tha
snoptios and John are involved in I
hopeless contradiction of each Other
for, according to the FIRST Jesus was
crdcliled on the first day Of the Pass
ov@r, and according to John i was N
he day preceding the feast
GrEciiixion was mode Of putt.ag
criminals to death whlch was I'M
known to the Jewish law II was u3t
even Sadducean; it was Roman, ant
1t gees to prove that criminal iuris!.e
ton was taken out OF the hands of
the Jews, at least touching the execti.
ton Of the sentence.
These prelates were fine set and
one of them Is especially known to
US, Aananias, who had James. the
brother of Jesus, put to death. They
were the revenue fathers of those
days; religion for them was q trade
which hey piled with all-the un-
scrupulous violence for which some
Of the highest ecclesiactical dlgna.
taries have ever been infamous The
sons Of Ananias had their shops on
Mount Olive, which was joined TO the
temple by bridge. 1t was there
that they sold the products of .h1
field, which, as tithes, they had taken
from the people In undue measure
and there, too, they obtained from
them by all manner og extortion their
hard-won earnings in exchange for
the requisites of temple servic..
Rabbi Simeaon, likewise a Phar;,ee
and the son Of the noble Gamaliel,
who defended the apostles, was so en-
ragged at he robbery pacticed by these
worthless that he swore he wouIi
never see his bed until he had put Al
end to these outrages.
Priests Were Responsible.
THUS we plainly see that the Phari,
sees and Jesus had common cauye
to arouse their ire and their sympa
thies, and as the Galilean was prop.
ably very bold In his attacks and un-
sparing in his scourging OF the pr.es )
they made him the special object OF
their venom. The hatred Of the &c.
.clesiastlcal tyrants was so intense
that three years before the destrGc
tion of The temple, the people rose up
in their wrath, and after burning the
booths Of the sons of Ananias, killed
the high priest himself draped his