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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Joseph Caiphas
Caiphas was certainly the only official high-priest at the time St.
After the raising of Lazarus, the priests and Pharisees held council to determine what was to be done in view of the manifest signs of the Prophet of Nazarus and what they were pleased to consider the danger resulting to the country.
As high-priest, Caiphas was the official head of the Sanhedrin, and consequently responsible for the travesty of a trial to which Christ was submitted by the Jewish authorities, before they handed Him over to Pilate and stirred up the people to demand his death.
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 Historical Jesus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joseph does not feature in any of the four canonical gospels, except in these childhood narratives; moreover, he does not feature in the Book of Acts, unlike Jesus' other relatives; these facts are generally taken to mean that he was dead by the time of Jesus' ministry.
The High Priest of the city was appointed by the government in Rome and the current holder of the post was Joseph Caiphas.
All the Gospel accounts agree that Joseph of Arimathea, variously a secret disciple or sympathiser to Jesus, and possible member of the Sanhedrin, arranged with Pilate for the body to be taken down and entombed.
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Joseph, the favored son of the patriarch Jacob, was given into captivity by his own envious brothers.
When Joseph is sent to a distant pasture one day to look after his brothers, they seize him, tear off his coat, throw him into a dry well and, the following day, sell him as a slave to traders on their way to Egypt.
Joseph is summoned and predicts that after seven years of plentiful harvest, Egypt will suffer seven years of famine.
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 Trial of Our Lord in His Passion
And whereas the witnesses were not sworn to tell the truth Caiphas now illicitly requires it of the accused.
First, the assembly only has the assertion of Caiphas to base its judgment on, secondly the sentence is pronounced immediately instead of waiting until the next day, the scribes do not count the votes for and against indeed, it seems there are no votes against.
It might be surmised that at least Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea would have registered their dissent considering the enormous number of irregularities in the procedures.
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 The Dolorous Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ: The Passion: Chapter LXI. Joseph of Arimathea miraculously set at large   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Joseph grasped it with both hands, and was drawn up to the opening, which closed again as soon as he had passed through; and the apparition disappeared the instant he was in safety at the top of the tower.
He walked on the summit of the wall until be reached the neighbourhood of the Cenaculum, which was near to the South wall of Sion, and then climbed down and knocked at the door of that edifice, as the doors were fastened.
When Joseph had related what had taken place, they were filled with astonishment and delight; and after thanking God fervently gave him some refreshment, which he greatly needed.
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An angel talked to Joseph to guide him, in his travels to Egypt, and answer's his questions as to "what was happening" with Mary and Jesus.
Caiphas is concerned about how the Romans will view Jesus.- he is dangerous Jesus talks with disciples, who are slow learners.
Joseph goes to a Rabbi to discuss what is to be done about Mary and the child, during his engagement.
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 The Morning Trial
The majority of the members had slept in the house of Caiphas, where beds had been prepared for them, but some, and among them Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea, had gone home, and returned at the dawn of day.  The meeting was crowded, and the members commenced their operations in the most hurried manner possible.
The High Priests and their adherents became very angry, and told Joseph and Nicodemus, in plain terms, that they were not surprised at their expressing displeasure at what had been done, because they were themselves partisans of the Galilean and his doctrines, and were fearful of being convicted.
Annas, Caiphas, and the chiefs of the Sanhedrim stopped at a part between the forum and the entrance to the Praetorium, where some stone seats were placed for them.
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 March 19 DAILY CATHOLIC TEXT Section One (mar19txt.htm)
Joseph was the "Model of Righteousness" for he could easily have walked away from his betrothal to Mary once he heard she was with child.
But Joseph was righteous in the most holy sense and chose, after God sent His angel, to follow through with his promise to his bride-to-be and did everything in his power to protect her and her reputation.
Saint Joseph is the saint most often invoked for the grace of a happy death and the assurance that Jesus is spiritually present at that time with every dying soul.
www.dailycatholic.org /issue/archives/1998Mar/56mar19,vol.9,no.56txt/mar19txt.htm   (3553 words)

  
 Yeshua and Joseph of Arimathea
Joseph of Arimathea was a man of refinement, culture, education and with the business acumen to vault him to the highest levels of political and social life.
Joseph of Arimathea, being a Jewish merchant, would have made easy relations with his lost brethren of the tribe of Asher that had been working the tin mines for centuries.  The ancient chroniclers testified that the Celts and the Israelites, who were able to converse in Hebrew and Greek, lived a highly sophisticated life.
Joseph of Arimathea is portrayed in the ancestral genealogies of the royal and nobility of Europe as being the brother to Heli, the thereby the great uncle to Jesus.
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 The Dolorous Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ: The Passion: Chapter VIII. Jesus before Caiphas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The enemies of Jesus still continued to accuse him of being a sorcerer, and Caiphas affirmed several times that the confusion in the statements of the witnesses was caused solely by witchcraft.
But the witnesses contradicted one another to such a degree that Caiphas and his adherents found, to their very great annoyance and anger, that not one accusation could be really proved.
Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea were called up, and being commanded to say how it happened that they had allowed him to eat the Pasch on the wrong day in a room which belonged to them, they proved from ancient documents
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 Passion Characters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
While betrothed to Joseph (while she was in her teens) she became pregnant with Jesus while she was still a virgin by the power of the Holy Spirit as prophesied in scripture (Matthew 1:18, Luke 1:26-38).
Annas was the father in law of Caiphas, though of the two Caiphas appeared to have the greater power.
It is Caiphas who prophesied that it would be better for one man to die for the people as he called for the death of Christ (Matthew 26:57-58, John 18:24).
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 The Passion of the Christ Movie - The Film vs the History - Mel Gibson, Jim Caviezel
Although he believed in the coming of a savior [John 11:51-52], Caiphas is known for his discreditable part in the death of Jesus, employing desperate means to rouse his followers.
The meeting that resulted in the decision to apprehend Jesus was held at the house of Caiphas.
Pilate was almost forced into handing down the crucifixion sentence as a result of Caiphas' determination to rid himself and the high priests of Jesus.
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 A Certain Jesus - Vol. 3 Chapter 115
We are gathered here to judge the doctrine and the activities of an Israelite whose name is Jesus, son of a certain Joseph and a woman named Mary, a native of Nazareth, in the province of Galilea.
Caiphas: I ask you, in the name of the Most Holy, to declare that you are the Messiah, the Son of David, the Son of God.
      Joseph “of Arimathea” was born in a city of Judea bearing that name, a Greek form of the Hebrew “Rama.” The writings of the period indicate that he was a rich landowner who had recently bought lands on the outskirts of Jerusalem.
www.bible.claret.org /liturgy/daily/acj/CycleB/Ch_115.htm   (2639 words)

  
 New Testament view on Jesus' life - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The other two Gospels, Mark and John, make no mention of Joseph at all, but in their first chapters refer to Jesus as the Son of God.
The focus of each of the gospel accounts is primarily found in his later life with special emphasis on the three year period of ministry prior to the crucifixion; events following his baptism; his teachings and ministry; and the events leading up to his death.
However, Epiphanius argued that they were Joseph's children by his (unrecorded) first wife, while Jerome argued that they were Jesus' cousins, which the Greek word for " brother " used in the Gospels would allow.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Testament_view_on_Jesus'_life   (2008 words)

  
 The Dolorous Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ ... section 2
Caiphas then arose, and, urged on by Satan, took up the end of his mantle, pierced it with his knife, and rent it from one end to the other, exclaiming at the same time, in a loud voice, " He hath blasphemed.
No sooner did Caiphas, with the other members of the Council, leave the tribunal than a crowd of miscreants - the very scum of the people - surrounded Jesus like a swarm of infuriated wasps, and began to heap every imaginable insult upon him.
Caiphas, Annas, the ancients, and the scribes assembled again in the morning in the great hall of the tribunal, to have a legal trial, as meetings at night were not lawful, and could only be looked upon in the light of preparatory audiences.
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 The Ben
All I am prepared to say is that on Friday evening I obtained permission from Pilate to bury the dead body of Jesus of Nazareth in my own tomb.
Edilijah Well I was there on Friday, Joseph asked me to help the Roman soldiers move that great big stone to block off the entrance.
With me in the studio is the official spokesman for Caiphas, the high priest who was instrumental in arranging for the arrest of Jesus and taking him to Pilate for crucifixion.
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NOW Joseph and Mary when they heard that the idol was fallen down and destroyed, were seized with fear and, trembling, and said, When we Were in the land of Israel, Herod, intending to kill Jesus, slew for that purpose all the infants at Bethlehem, and that neighbourhood.
AND Joseph, wheresoever he went in the city, took the Lord Jesus with him, where he was sent for to work to make gates, or milk-pails, or sieves, or boxes; the Lord Jesus was with him, wheresoever be went.
ON another day Joseph sent his son James to gather wood, and the Lord Jesus went with him; 2 And when they came to the place where the wood was, and James began to gather it, behold, a venemous viper bit him, so that he began to cry, and make a noise.
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 The Final Exile of Joseph of Arimathea
Pontius Pilate and Caiphas Deposed by Vitellius, the Roman Legate
Records do indicate that the extensive properties of Joseph of Arimathea and the Bethany family’s hereditary properties of their Syrian governor were eventually liquidated except for the Bethany home which remained in the possession of the Jewish Nazarene Ecclesia as a house of Prayer.
Matthias ben Joseph, a Hasmodean descendant of the Maccabean kings and priests and the father of Flavius Josephus was born.
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 Forbidden Gospels and Epistles, Volume 3, Infancy of Jesus Christ eBook by Archbishop Wake
CHAPTER I. 1 Caiphas relates that Jesus, when in his cradle, informed his mother that he was the Son of God.
5 Joseph therefore arose, and with Mary his spouse he went to Jerusalem, and then came to Bethlehem, that he and his family might be taxed in the city of his fathers.
8 But Joseph hastened away, that he might fetch her a midwife; and when he saw an old Hebrew woman who was of Jerusalem, he said to her, Pray come hither, good woman, and go into that cave, and you will there see a woman just ready to bring forth.
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 Life of Jesus Christ 4 www.on.to/3
On the south side of Mount Sion, not far from the citadel of David and from the market, which was on the eastern ascent to the same, it stood in an open court surrounded by courtyards with massive walls, and between rows of shade trees.
It was now the property of Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea, who arranged the principal building in a very suitable manner and let it as a guest house for strangers coming to Jerusalem for the Pasch.
One of the charges brought before Caiphas on the occasion of Judass treason was that Jesus had introduced something new into the Paschal ceremonies, but Nicodemus proved from Scripture that this was an ancient practice at farewell feasts.
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 Profiles of Joseph Caiaphas and Pontius Pilate, key figures in the arrest, trial and crucifixion of Jesus.
Profiles of Joseph Caiaphas and Pontius Pilate, key figures in the arrest, trial and crucifixion of Jesus.
Joseph Caiaphas was the high priest of Jerusalem who, according to Biblical accounts, sent Jesus to Pilate for his execution.
As high priest and chief religious authority in the land, Caiaphas had many important responsibilities, including controlling the Temple treasury, managing the Temple police and other personnel, performing religious rituals, and--central to the passion story--serving as president of the Sanhedrin, the Jewish council and court that reportedly considered the case of Jesus.
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10 Annas and Caiphas spake to Pilate, All this multitude of people is to be regarded, who cry out, that he was born through fornication, and is a conjurer; but they who deny him to be born through fornication, are his proselytes and disciples.
15 Then said Annas and Caiphas to Pilate, Those twelve men will not believe that we know him to be basely born, and to be a conjurer, although he pretends that he is the Son of God, and a king: which we are so far from believing, that we tremble to hear.
WHEN the unjust Jews heard that Joseph had begged and buried the body of Jesus, they sought after Nicodemus, and those fifteen men who had testified before the governor, that Jesus was not born through fornication, and other good persons who had shown any good actions towards him.
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 Annas
The office was given to Joseph, also called Caiphus about 25, who continued until 35 or 36.
Annus was regarded as being high priest jure divino, having authority in spiritual matters, while Caiphas was the pontiff recognized by the government.
Annas and Caiphas had no use for Jews who did not swell their coffers, just as the Baptist had no stomach for the Temple hypocrites.
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 The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ. (xiv.liii)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
THE Sabbath was close at hand, and Nicodemus and Joseph returned to Jerusalem by a small door not far from the garden, and which Joseph had been allowed by special favour to have made in the city wall.
Joseph and Nicodemus met Peter and the two Jameses in the town.
These soldiers were pagans, and had not to keep the Sabbath, therefore Caiphas had been able to secure their services on this occasion.
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 Jesus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Gospel of Mark reports that Jesus had brothers, that he was " Mary's son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon, " and also suggests that Jesus had sisters.
Other churches suggest that these were step brothers, children of Joseph and a previous wife who died before Mary was betrothed to him.
Followers of Urantia consider Jesus to be divine, but also believe that Joseph was Jesus' genetic father.
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 ATMA JYOTI ASHRAM - Unknown Lives of Jesus and Mary - Chapter 8a
And the Jews, hearing these words, were embittered in their souls, and seized Joseph, and locked him into a room where there was no window; and guards were stationed at the door, and they sealed the door where Joseph was locked in.
And hearing about Joseph, they were glad, and gave glory to the God of Israel, And the rulers of the synagogue, and the priests and the Levites, having held a council as to the manner in which they should meet with Joseph, took a piece of paper, and wrote to Joseph as follows:
And Joseph having received it, read the letter and rolled it up, and blessed God, and said: Blessed be the Lord God, Who has delivered Israel, that they should not shed innocent blood; and blessed be the Lord, Who sent out His Angel, and covered me under his wings.
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