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Tue conspirators, Annas and Caiphas, knew they had to hurry. The difficulties confronting them only strengthened the resolve in Annas to obtain the death penalty for Jesus, and to be satisfied with nothing less.
Now that the old leader believed in the real danger of the situation, he was far more stirred than Caiphas, although outwardly still calm and lordly. No one knew better than Annas what the consequences would be to him, to his family, to his class, if Jesus prevailed. It would mean the ultimate eclipse of the Temple aristocracy. The idea of a workingman, a carpenter, coming to Jerusalem with such a program and with power over the imagination of the people was infinitely more disturbing than a messiah of the kind the malcontents desired. A military messiah Rome would know how to answer; he might be disturbing for a while, but any uprising of the people would speedily enough be crushed.