καταπέτασμα: John’s Contribution to the Story of Jesus’s Demise

καταπέτασμα, “No king but Christ: Why Caesar killed Jesus” (12.27.24) scribesofthekingdom.com:

[T]he Gospel of John should be treasured for its unique contributions to our understanding of Jesus’ demise. The historian finds in John a storehouse of goods that subvert the anti-Jewish tendencies of early Christianity, and allow for the composition of a more sociologically sophisticated portrait of the nexus between Roman power and Jewish machinations. The Jesus that emerges from the Gospel of John, moreover, is anything but the politically indifferent spiritual advisor to the Christian Roman emperors—the criterion of embarrassment is surely satisfied. As the enemy of Caesar, the Johannine Jesus elicits royal acclamations, rides into Jerusalem as Israel’s warrior-king, violently upends the Roman-backed economy of the Temple, is arrested and tortured as befitting a rebel by an imperial cohort, and tacitly accepts the charge of opposing Caesar at his trial before Pontius Pilate. He is a political juggernaut.