Matthew 26:57, The Unlikely Trial

And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.

//In the Gospel of John, there is no trial of Jesus before the Sanhedrin (the ruling council of the Jews). But the other three gospels tell of this trial, a sort of kangaroo court, in which Jesus is condemned by the Jews prior to turning him over to the Romans.

One wonders how this could be true. The likelihood of Caiaphas (the high priest) sending messengers around Je...