If you disobey a civil court order, you can be held in contempt of court which my include enforcement of orders confirming your contempt with fines and imprisonment as the punishment. But Jesus was not the benefit of natural justice and was taken away by the gestapo authorities in the middle of the night without any order involved. The Jews of Nazi Germany may empathise with Christ's experience. However, in our modern court system following the experiences of John the Baptist and Guy Faulkes, you certainly have a moral responsibility to address directly and not to obey an unjust law because we still need justice and so we refuse to accept such laws and repeal them but John the Baptist knows that, in spite of the law, there is authority and authority said he would have to go as he addressed directly what he felt was contemptous to the law ( ten commandments-thou shall not kill or covet but honor and keep your covenants(promises)).
So in maintaining the covenants outlined in the Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights( a modern interpretation of the Magna Carta) and the one that says teach the golden rule, we have magnanimity. This means that all modern court proceedings, including contempt proceedings, also maintain the principles contained therein-magna carta-including the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Verily, they are to be conducted in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice and to permit a reasonable and respectable time to prepare a full answer, even at a trial by right, to the allegements and to call any witnesses that may aid the court in its duty to ensure justice as opposed to "Will". This is also "Spanish Inquisition" avoidance and even if you did smoke weed in the sixties, it doesn't mean that you have the right to demand your tonka toys NOW and flip the "bird" to every symbol of authority you associate with those who deprived you of such toys way back then in your formative years; right?
Well, he wasn't really in contempt. Read Mark 3 and John 5. He just wanted to fulfill the law and the prophets including Malachi chapter 2 and Hosea chapter 2 and 3.
By Warren A. Lyon, Political Scientist, Lawyer, Essayist.
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