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...petitioner was a sandy-haired Dutch Protestant named Henri A. Robbe Groskamp. No scholar, Groskamp first became interested in Christ's trial through reading religious books in his mother's library while he was hiding out from the Germans during the occupation. In the end he began to feel that he was divinely inspired to do something about it. Groskamp first appealed to the World Council of Churches meeting in Amsterdam last summer; then he lodged his carefully drawn legal brief with the Supreme Court of Israel...
...Groskamp's main points: 1) High Priest Caiaphas violated several Jewish legal procedures in his conduct of the trial; 2) the Jews rejected Jesus as messiah because he was no national liberator. Israel's present rebirth without the help of a messiah proves that the messiah did not have to be a national liberator, Groskamp contends, hence Jesus' rejection on those grounds was an error...
Legal and religious experts are sure Israel's court will eventually drop the case for lack of jurisdiction. But first, Mijnheer Groskamp's petition will be given careful consideration and an official reply...
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