Jesus and Isaac - Joseph Caiphas

Before and after Jesus had been anointed in Bethany and when He stood trial, when it was crucial whether Jesus was or wasn’t the Christ (= “the anointed” Ps 2,2, the ever-reigning king and high priest promised in Scripture, cf. Ps 110,4 Ps 2), Jesus’ virgin mother and also Jesus Himself could have declared that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, and that his legal father was Joseph, son of Jacob, from the royal family of David and “Son of David” (Mt 1). To be a Bethlehem-born descendant of king David, was the scriptural condition for anyone who had the pretension to be the Christ (Micah 5,2 Isa 9,6-7 Jer 23,5 Mt 22,42). Yet, Jesus and Mary didn't declare Jesus met this condition, although no one knew He was of Bethlehem – one thought He was of Nazareth because He had been exposed, and secretly adopted by Nazareth’s carpenter (see my article Jesus and Moses – Mary Magdalene). And also the high priest Caiphas, who asked Jesus the crucial question: “Are you the Christ”, doesn't ask or say anything about Jesus’ birthplace or about his father (Mark 14:61). The only sound explanation for the extraordinary behaviour of these three people is that Mary and Jesus knew that did not have to start about this topic in front of the high priest, and the high priest did not have to ask anyone about this, because the high priest Joseph Caiphas knew Jesus’ real birthplace and who was Jesus’ real legal father: it was he.

This article presents an extensive technical analysis of the evidence.