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The James Passage (Antiquities Book 20, Chapter 9, Section 1) is known for providing details of the illegal trial and sentencing to death by stoning of James, the brother of Jesus under Ananus II and an assembly of the Sanhedrin. This type of trial resembles the gathering of the Sanhedrin on the trial of Jesus (e.g. Mathew 26).

The James Passage (Antiquities Book 20, Chapter 9, Section 1) is known for providing details of the illegal trial and sentencing to death by stoning of James, the brother of Jesus under Ananus II and an assembly of the Sanhedrin. This type of trial resembles the gathering of the Sanhedrin on the trial of Jesus (e.g. Mathew 26).

There is clear consensus among scholars that the passage is authentic.

The scholarly consensus is near universal that the James passage is authentic to Josephus and that it verifies that Josephus did write about Jesus.<ref>Louis Feldman. 1987. Josephus, Judaism and Christianity.BRILL. p.56 ISBN 9789004085541. "That, indeed, Josephus did say something about Jesus is indicated, above all, by the passage—the authenticity of which has been almost universally acknowledged—about James, who is termed (A XX, 200) the brother of "the aforementioned Christ."</ref>

== St. Ambrose and St. Jerome on Josephus==

== St. Ambrose and St. Jerome on Josephus==