Note 10 — Chapter XVI · THE TRIAL CRUX

Three of the trial stories are thus in turn rejected as hopelessly unhistorical. And now we are invited to regard as “incontestable” the fourth, the trial before Pilate as related in the synoptics; the Johannine version being dismissed as fiction. In the scientific sense of the word10 the rejected stories have been classed as myths. And still we are told that the “myth-theory” is outside discussion.