Abstract
Abstract This chapter offers a reflection on the Roman trial of Jesus in John--the last gospel to be written. Anti-Semitic interpretations of John's Passion narrative are rejected, in light of a new reading of a crucial scene in John 11. Pilate's reluctance to crucify Jesus is elucidated in legal terms, and the procedural logic of John's Passion narrative is succinctly reconstructed. It is shown that the Roman titulus on Jesus' cross marks him as a Galilean and a non-citizen of Rome, who is put to death for a Roman crime. And it is finally asked whether Roman and Judaean law--or rather, Roman and Judaean politics--lie behind Jesus' conviction in John. The dramatic logic of Jesus' death, in John, ultimately proves to be political--not legal.
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