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The trial of Jesus is an indisputable historic event, on which researchers today have enough information to understand the issues and the hidden drivers. Its development leaves little room for uncertainty. The framework is provided to us by the Gospel of an exceptional eyewitness, John, rather than by the Synoptics (Matthew, Mark and Luke) who do not have the same proximity to History. John, as Richard Bauckham, professor emeritus at the University of St Andrews in Scotland again recently showed, was probably a secret disciple of Jesus, member of the high priesthood of Jerusalem, who received Mary as mother and welcomed him into his remains, and not, as a late legend of the third century accredited, the apostle John, one of the Twelve, fisherman of the lake of Génésareth, undoubtedly martyred towards the year 44 with his brother Jacques (read Le Figaro Special Edition
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