14:53–65 Each of the four Gospels gives an account of the trials of Jesus before Jewish and Roman authorities, but the variations in their accounts make it difficult to construct a complete and detailed picture of the events. In addition to the variations among the four Gospels, there are also questions about the nature of the sources of information available to early Christians in constructing their accounts of the trials, since obviously no Christians were present. We cannot tackle fully these questions here, both because it is the primary aim of this commentary to understand the text of Mark as it stands rather than to try to reconstruct in detail the historical sequence of the events lying behind the text, and because there is not adequate space to discuss the historical questions surr…