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Annas

Annas (also Ananus), son of Seth, was a Jewish

Judaism

Judaism is a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible , as later further explored and explained in the Talmud and other texts....
High Priest

List of High Priests of Israel

This page gives one list of the Kohen Gadols of Ancient Israel up to the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 Common Era. Because of a lack a historic data, this list is incomplete and there may be gaps....
from AD 6

Year 6 was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar....
to 15

Year 15 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar....
and remained an influential leader afterwards.

Annas was appointed High Priest in AD 6 by the Roman legate Quirinius

Quirinius

Publius Sulpicius Quirinius was a Roman Empire aristocrat. His governorship of Syria is one of the Chronology of Jesus for the birth of Jesus....
just after the Romans had deposed Archelaus

Herod Archelaus

Herod Archelaus was the ethnarch of Samaria, Judea, and Edom from 4 BC to 6 AD. He was the son of Herod the Great and Malthace, the brother of Herod Antipas, and the half-brother of Herod Philip I....
, Ethnarch of Judaea, thereby putting Judaea directly under Roman rule as part of Iudaea Province

Iudaea Province

Iudaea was a Roman province that extended over the former region of the Hasmonean and Herodian kingdoms of Israel. It was named after the tetrarchy of Judea of which it was an expansion, the latter name deriving from the Kingdom of Judah of the 6th century BCE....
. Annas served in the office for ten years, until the procurator Gratus dismissed him in AD 15.

After that, Annas saw several members of his family succeed him as High Priests:

Josephus comments on this situation:

"It is said that the elder Ananus was extremely fortunate.

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Annas (also Ananus), son of Seth, was a Jewish

Judaism

Judaism is a set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible , as later further explored and explained in the Talmud and other texts....
High Priest

List of High Priests of Israel

Year 6 was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar....
to 15

Year 15 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar....
and remained an influential leader afterwards.

Annas was appointed High Priest in AD 6 by the Roman legate Quirinius

Quirinius

Publius Sulpicius Quirinius was a Roman Empire aristocrat. His governorship of Syria is one of the Chronology of Jesus for the birth of Jesus....
just after the Romans had deposed Archelaus

Herod Archelaus

Iudaea Province

Eleazar ben Ananus (16–17)
Joseph Caiaphas
Caiaphas

Yosef Bar Kayafa , also known simply as Caiaphas in the New Testament, was the Roman Empire-appointed Judaism List of High Priests of Israel between AD 18 and 37....
(18–36), who had married the daughter of Annas (John 18:13)
Jonathan ben Ananus (36–37 and 44)
Theophilus ben Ananus
Theophilus ben Ananus

Theophilus was the Kohen Gadol in the Second Temple in Jerusalem from 37 to 41 C.E. according to Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews. He was a member of one of the wealthiest and most influential Jew families in Iudaea Province during the first century....
(37–41)
Matthias ben Ananus (43)
Ananus ben Ananus (63)

Josephus comments on this situation:

"It is said that the elder Ananus was extremely fortunate. For he had five sons, all of whom, after he himself had previously enjoyed the office for a very long period, became high priests of God - a thing that had never happened to any other of our high priests." (Jewish Antiquities XX, 9.1)

References in the Mosaic Law

Torah

The term "Torah" , or Five Books of Moses or Pentateuch, refers to the entirety of Judaism's founding Halakha and ethical religious texts....
to "the death of the high priest" (Num 35:25, 28) suggest that the high-priesthood was ordinarily held for life. Perhaps for this reason, Annas was still called "high priest" even after his dismissal, along with Caiaphas

Caiaphas

Yosef Bar Kayafa , also known simply as Caiaphas in the New Testament, was the Roman Empire-appointed Judaism List of High Priests of Israel between AD 18 and 37....
(Luke 3:2). He also may have been acting as president of the Sanhedrin

Sanhedrin

The Sanhedrin was an assembly of twenty-three judges appointed in every city in the Land of Israel.The Great Sanhedrin was the supreme court of ancient Israel....
, or a coadjutor of the high priest.

According to the Gospel of John

Gospel of John

The Gospel of John is the fourth gospel in the Biblical canon of the New Testament, traditionally ascribed to John the Evangelist. Like the three synoptic gospels, it contains an account of some of the actions and sayings of Jesus of Nazareth, but differs from them in ethos and theological emphases....
(the event is not mentioned in other accounts), Jesus

Jesus

Jesus of Nazareth , also known as Jesus Christ, is the central figure of Christianity and is revered by most Christian churches as the Son of God and the Incarnation ....
was first brought before Jonathan Ananus, and after a brief questioning of him (John 18:19-23) was sent to Caiaphas

Caiaphas

Yosef Bar Kayafa , also known simply as Caiaphas in the New Testament, was the Roman Empire-appointed Judaism List of High Priests of Israel between AD 18 and 37....
, where some members of the Sanhedrin had met, and the first trial of Jesus

Sanhedrin Trial of Jesus

The Sanhedrin Trial of Jesus is an event reported by all the Biblical canon Gospels of the Bible. These accounts report that after Jesus Christ and his followers celebrated Passover as their Last Supper, Jesus was betrayed by his Twelve apostles Judas Iscariot, and Arrest of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane ....
took place (Matt. 26:57-68).

After Pentecost

Pentecost

Pentecost is one of the prominent feasts in the Christianity liturgical year, celebrated the 49th day after Easter Sunday?or the 50th day, inclusively, whence its name is derived from the Greek....
, he presided over the Sanhedrin before which the Apostles

Twelve Apostles

In Christianity, apostles were missionaries among the leaders in the Early Christianity and, in the Epistle to the Hebrews, Jesus Christ himself....
Peter

Saint Peter

Saint Peter was a leader of the early Christianity church, who features prominently in the New Testament Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles....
and John

John the Evangelist

Saint John the Evangelist , or the Beloved Disciple, is traditionally the name used to refer to the author of the Gospel of John and the First Epistle of John....
were brought (Acts 4:6).

Annas has an important role in Jesus Christ Superstar

Jesus Christ Superstar

Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber. It highlights the political and interpersonal struggles of Judas Iscariot and Jesus....
, spurring Caiaphas to take action against Jesus. In almost all versions, Annas has a very high voice (almost reaching falsetto) to contrast against Caiaphas' baritone.

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