Interesting. But when one reads the relevant passage in Josephus one finds it conveys a message quite contrary to the one for which it is cited:Tod Stites wrote: Now another reason for skepticism regarding the historicity of the Sanhedrin
trial reported in the Gospels is the silent submissive behavior attributed to Jesus
in the story (Mark 14:60-62), since such a report seems bent on casting Jesus in
the role of the Isaian Suffering Servant (Isa 53:7), and is more likely to be fictional.
The report of Josephus however says that in the time of Herod the Great
the self-perception of the Sanhedrin was that "everyone, whosoever he be, that
comes to be tried by this Sanhedrin, presents himself in a submissive manner,
and like one that is in fear.."(5).
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5.Josephus "Judean Antiquities" 14.9.4.172.
In Mark Jesus appears before his accusers beaten and humiliated -- the very state that Josephus says one accused should present (although of course Jesus had this piteous condition forced upon him) -- but his silence is not submissive in the sense Josephus describes. Jesus' silence serves the opposite function -- to leave him open to condemnation, unable or unwilling to deny the charges. Josephus expects the submissive court appearance to involve a very voluble pleading for mercy, a frantic denial of the charges.But when Herod stood before the Sanhedrim, with his body of men about him, he affrighted them all, and no one of his former accusers durst after that bring any charge against him, but there was a deep silence, and nobody knew what was to be done. When affairs stood thus, one whose name was Sameas, (16) a righteous man he was, and for that reason above all fear, rose up, and said,
"O you that are assessors with me, and O thou that art our king, I neither have ever myself known such a case, nor do I suppose that any one of you can name its parallel, that one who is called to take his trial by us ever stood in such a manner before us; but every one, whosoever he be, that comes to be tried by this Sanhedrim, presents himself in a submissive manner, and like one that is in fear of himself, and that endeavors to move us to compassion, with his hair dishevelled, and in a black and mourning garment: but this admirable man Herod, who is accused of murder, and called to answer so heavy an accusation, stands here clothed in purple, and with the hair of his head finely trimmed, and with his armed men about him, that if we shall condemn him by our law, he may slay us, and by overbearing justice may himself escape death.
Jesus's portrayal in Mark is not at all like the submissive demeanour Josephus expects of one before the Sanhedrin.
In fact, if we count the Gospel of John as evidence, then we have a Jesus who is more like Herod before his accusers.