The King of Stories -- Into The Trials
Introductory note from Jason Pratt: see here for the previous entry; and see here for the first entry of the series. (It explains what I'm doing, and how, and contains the Johannine prologue.) The plotnotes continue factoring heavily for this entry; so I am continuing to blockquote them for ease of distinction between them and actual text. Into the Trials (The storytellers continue together in harmony, complementing and overlapping each other...) So the squad and the captain and the deputies of the Jews arrested Jesus, and bound Him, and led Him away--first to Annas, for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas who was high priest that year. Now Caiaphas (the Evangelist reminds his audience) was the one who had advised the Jews that it was better for one man to die on behalf of the people. But Simon Peter was following Jesus at a distance... and so was another disciple (says the Evangelist). Now that (other) disciple was known to the high priest, and entered with Jesus into the court of ...