gospel · 30 · Jerusalem
Taken by night to the high priest's house, he was questioned before the council and stayed silent under the false witnesses until asked directly whether he was the Christ. Caiaphas tore his robes at the answer. Outside in the courtyard Peter denied him three times and the cock crowed. The gospels differ on the hearing's form and legality; that it happened, and what it concluded, they do not differ on.
In the New Testament, the Sanhedrin trial of Jesus refers to the trial of Jesus before the Sanhedrin following his arrest in Jerusalem and prior to the trial before Pontius Pilate. It is an incident reported by all three Synoptic Gospels of the New Testament, while the Gospel of John refers to a preliminary inquiry before Annas. The gospel accounts vary on a number of details.
The charge of blasphemy; Peter's three denials in the courtyard.