Joazar ben Bethos, the Sanhedrist
He only appears once, briefly, at the funeral of Lazarus.[1]
His two brothers (Eleazar and Simon), former High Priests like him, sit with him on the Sanhedrin, in the priestly college.
His name
Perhaps related to Joash (Yoach) "God has given".
Where is he mentioned in the work?
EMV 546
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Joazar was the son of Simon Boethus, a High Priest who owed his pontificate to the charm of his daughter Mariamne II whom Herod the Great married in his third Weddings (cited by Msgrs A. and J. Lemann).
Joazar is thus the stepbrother of Herodias and the uncle of the princess Salome (the dancer at the feast of Herod).
Joazar himself was High Priest for six years from 4 BC to year 2 and was deposed by Quirinius.
According to Flavius Josephus, Joazar appeared at the trial of Jesus with his two brothers, one of whom was, like him, a former high priest (Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, XV, IX, 3 ; XVII, 3,39, VI, 4 ; XIII, 1 ; XVIII, 26 ; XIX, VI, 2).