[[ To continue some thinking from a previous blog of 4 April 2020 . . . ]]
John 19
Pilate cared nothing for Jesus life; that mattered not at all to him. If Pilot could quickly get Jesus to admit he was King he could get a quick, easy judgment. He brought him out before the people in “Kings clothing” saying, "behold your King". But he had no evidence, only the troublesome fact that Jesus had said he was the son of God. Now pilot was sucked into Jewish religious matters. He tried to release him until the Jews said that Jesus made himself King in the place of Caesar. That was enough to let pilot off the hook and get Jesus crucified. In all this, the fact that an innocent man might die had no effect on Pilot’s thinking. He didn't want to do anything that would embroil him in legal wrangling for months to come. He wanted out of the Jewish religious arguments. Let it not be said that Pilot upheld a Jewish religious discrimination suit in a Roman court. That was a career-stopper.
