Atlas Biblica

    person

    Annas

    Ἄννας

    Annas, a high priest, played a significant role in the events surrounding Jesus' arrest, trial, and crucifixion, as well as in the early persecution of the apostles.

    verses
    4
    first named
    Luke 3:2
    last named
    Acts 4:6
    period
    the New Testament
    tribe
    Levi

    Description

    Who was Annas?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Annas was a high priest during the time of Jesus' ministry and played a significant role in the events surrounding Jesus' arrest and trial. He served as high priest from AD 6 to 15 and was succeeded by his son-in-law Caiaphas. However, even after his tenure, Annas retained significant influence and was still referred to as high priest.

    After Jesus' arrest, He was first brought before Annas for questioning. Annas then sent Jesus to Caiaphas, the current high priest, who presided over the Sanhedrin trial that condemned Jesus to death.

    Following Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection, Annas continued to oppose the early Christian church. When the apostles Peter and John were arrested for preaching in Jesus' name, they were brought before the Sanhedrin, where Annas was present as a member of the ruling council.

    Annas' involvement in the events surrounding Jesus' trial and the persecution of the early church highlights the significant influence he held, even though he was no longer the official high priest. His actions demonstrate the religious establishment's opposition to Jesus and the growing Christian movement in the early days of the church.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    How the graph connects Annas 6 of 6 entities the graph connects to Annas, in 2 groups: kinship 1, events 5. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.daughter of AnnasFather of · 1 verseKinshipJesus2 events · 1,160 versesJerusalem1 event · 888 versesCaiaphas3 events · 9 versesAlexander1 event · 1 verseJohn1 event · 1 verseEventsAnnas

    Father of

    Stands in the same events as

    Places

    Where this happens

    The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

    Where the story of Annas happens The one place the claims about Annas reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Jerusalem. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Annas there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Jerusalem
    the New TestamentThe one place the claims about Annas reach

    The pattern

    Where Annas is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 4 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSLUKE–ACTS4 VERSES41 books and 973 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 4 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSLUKE–ACTS4 VERSES41 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Annas is named in 4 verses — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 63 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 4, across 3 books.

    1. Luke1 verse

      3:2

    2. John2 verses

      18:1318:24

    3. Acts1 verse

      4:6

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via daughter of AnnasCaiaphasHigh priest during Jesus' ministry and trial
    ElsewhereGenealogy of AnnasEvery ancestor and every descendant the text names, both gospel lines where they differ.

    Where they appear

    Chapter by chapter

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    Sources

    What this rests on