Man Against Messiah

The Sanhedrin Plot Against Jesus

By: Phillip C. Wright

Narrated by: Phillip C. Wright

Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins

Publisher's summary

In this book, I discuss the life and times of Jesus based on the Bible and the works of religious scholars, researchers, authors, and spiritual teachers. The focus of this book is to show how Jesus, through his teachings, caused the members of the Sanhedrin great concern as his followers began to increase. 

Jesus was different because, unlike most of the others, he did not encourage an uprising against Rome, who had conquered Jerusalem in 63 BC. His threat was against the evil leaders of the Jews, the Sanhedrin, those he referred to when he spoke of the Scribes and Pharisees. He threatened their power over the Jews by questioning their lack of understanding of the scriptures.

Jesus called them to repentance for their pompous, prideful, and phony pious as they exalted them above others, including the angels and prophets of old. His message of love, compassion, and forgiveness, and his miracles of healing the sick, giving sight to the blind, feeding thousands with a few fishes and loaves of bread, and raising Lazarus from the dead began turning the people toward Jesus and away from the Sanhedrin. For the Sanhedrin, it was Man Against Messiah.

©2018 Phillip C. Wright (P)2022 Phillip C. Wright

Unexpected Surprise

I was recently doing some biblical research on the book of Mark and realized how little I understood about the complex cultural and political nature of the Sanhedrin. I started looking around to see what kind of material was available but didn’t have time to go through something overly academic. I took a chance on this and was not disappointed. This book provided a fantastic overview that opened up the corruption of the Sanhedrin in a way that was clear and concise using historical sources. The author is admittedly a devoted follower of Christ believing him to be the Son of God and paid this subject with the level of respect that is owed to what the Bible clearly teaches. If I could’ve given this book 10 stars I would’ve. Anytime I read passages involving Jewish leadership hunting Christ in the streets as they do often did I will be reminded about things I learned in this book that will make me feel like I was really there and understood their motives.

It was a great story but the performance suffered

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