Is it fair to blame the Jews for the execution of Jesus? What was the role of the Sanhedrin, King Herod and the Roman procurator in imposing a cruel and unjustified sentence? How accurately do the evangelists describe events? Is it possible to reliably reconstruct the entire chronicle of the most famous trial in human history? The author, a doctor of jurisprudence from Germany, is trying to find an answer to these questions. His book was translated into seven European languages and Japanese and caused heated controversy among historians and theologians. The Russian translation, made from the English edition and verified with the original German, is supplemented by an article-commentary by the famous Russian theologian and biblical scholar D. V. Shchedrovitsky. For a wide range of readers.