The True Story of Jesus — Page 47
Chapter Eight— Trial of Jesus Early in the morning, all the chief priests and elders made their plans against Jesus as to put him to death. They put him in chains, led him off, and handed him over to Pilate, the Roman governor. 1 They told him that Jesus as had committed an act of blas- phemy against God. Moreover, they accused him of changing the accepted religious practices and said that his teachings were leading people astray. It appears from these statements that the Jewish religious leaders of that time believed that the punishment prescribed for blasphemy was death, that is why they pleaded with Pilate to put Jesus as to death. Strangely, some of the Muslim clergy of today also believe that the punishment for blasphemy should be death. The Government of Pakistan, influenced by the mul- lahs, has enacted a law which prescribes the only punishment for such a crime as death. It seems therefore that the Muslim clergy 1. Matthew 27:1–2