Antiquity
Execution of James, brother of Jesus, and others, on the order of the high priest Anân during a vacancy of Roman power
62·Jérusalem
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Taking advantage of the death of the procurator Festus and the delayed arrival of his successor Albinus, the high priest Anân the Younger convened the sanhedrin and had James, the brother of Jesus, stoned along with several others accused of having transgressed the Law. He acted without Roman authorization, which alone was empowered to pronounce capital punishment.
The inhabitants of Jerusalem most devoted to legal exactitude complained to King Agrippa and to the procurator, and Anân was deposed after three months. The episode is one of the rare judicial capital executions of that period whose details have been preserved.
- Period :
- Antiquity
- Type :
- Trials and executions
- Region :
- Land of Israel
- Country :
- Terre d'Israël
Flavius Josèphe, Antiquités judaïques ; Eusèbe de Césarée, Histoire ecclésiastique, citant Hégésippe.