Word: matthew
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...events, the Sanhedrin first examined witnesses not to condemn Christ but to find men who would convincingly testify in his favor before the Romans. When it could find none, the high court attempted to persuade Jesus to plead not guilty before the Romans; he refused. The buffeting that Matthew says Jesus received from Sanhedrin members was thus not punishment for blasphemy but simply the product of bitter frustration. "Jesus had refused to cooperate and to bow to their authority," says Cohn, "and there was nothing that could be done to prevent the trial from taking its course...
...KOREAN WAR by Matthew B. Ridgway. 291 pages. Doub/eday...
INFIDEL IN THE TEMPLE by Matthew Josephson. 513 pages. Knopf...
...Matthew Josephson, now 68, is perhaps best remembered for his muckraking classic, The Robber Barons, a gallery of the "malefactors of great wealth" who dominated the second half of the 19th century in the U.S. The theme was full of pay dirt for the propagandist, but Josephson, one of the few radicals who had any notion of how American business actually worked, wrote with authority. Infidel in the Temple is an attempt to evoke the spirit of the Depression years, but the effect is only that of an endless documentary spliced from old newsreels, with a commentary by the author...
GILBERT E. DONAHUE MATTHEW K. CLARKE Washington...