The Charge Line

How the Christ-killer charge travelled from sermon to statute.

Left lane: what was written. Right lane: who enforced it. A line between two cards means the ruler or council on the right used the text on the left, and the card says how.

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Written Enforced Withdrawn photograph included Grade A: physical object survives. B: text survives by copy or quotation. X: the claim itself, no outside witness.

How to use this

The lanes: Texts that assert the charge run down the left. Rulers and councils that enforced it run down the right. The two withdrawals sit across both lanes at the bottom.
The lines: A dashed line joins a text to an enforcement that used it. Tap either card: the line darkens and a note says how.
Open a card: Tap it to read the evidence, the grade, and the source. One card opens at a time.
The photo mark: The small frame by a title means the open card shows a photograph. Tap the photograph to see it full size.
Learned: The button inside an open card marks it learned. The bar in the strip counts how many you have marked.
Filters: The dropdowns narrow the list. The i on each says what it covers.
Jump to era: Scrolls to the first card of that stretch of the run.

Biblical passages are dated by the historical-critical consensus, the same way the Object Record dates every other document: when it was composed, what physical copy survives, and what outside witness exists for the event it describes. The crowd scene at the trial has none, so it is graded X. The text's existence by the mid-2nd century is graded A, because a fragment of John sits in a case in Manchester.

Tap any card to read the evidence, the grade, and the source. Tap a card with a line attached to bring the line forward.

Part of the Object Record: the same evidence standard, applied to how the Christ-killer charge itself was written and enforced. Photographs load from Wikimedia Commons; each credit line names the file and, where the picture is a stand-in for the object, says so. Progress is saved in this browser only. References