Jesus before Pilate
If, within the mandate that the Apostle Paul received the day of his conversion, he is from the outset, mention of his future appearance before kings to witness Christ: Acts 9.15 , it will not be the first to experience it. Jesus before him, will be conducted before the authorities to prove that He is and will be judged accordingly event. If all the disciples are not called to go through this path, all according to Jesus, must design the event: Marc 13.9 . Because it deals primarily affect the claims of religious power, inevitably bounce or its ability to influence the testimony of Christ upsets the established order and key areas of competence of the civil power.
The condemnation of Jesus pronounced by the council, it decided to take him to Pilate, the only authority able to pronounce the final sentence about Him. Three counts, presented as an affect the authority of Rome, were presented to Jesus by Pilate against representatives of the Jewish Sanhedrin. No doubt there have been throughout history many trials that were the result of assemblies and arrangements against nature. Jesus surpasses that of incongruity in the unimaginable: clamped by Rome, the Jewish authorities, to get rid of him, will find nothing better than to advocate the interests of their conqueror. If there is a situation that applies the perfection of a favorite maxim of Machiavelli, the end justifies all means, this is where we find it!
Returning on three indictments brought against Jesus to see its validity:
1st act: this individual leads our nation to revolt.
Against whom or what? The religious hypocrisy, hardness of heart, the yoke of sin in the life: yes! In power, the legitimacy of the authority of Rome: not once! Jesus did he not allowed to rescue them, both Jewish and Roman, as the centurion whose faith He praised: Luke 7.9 !
2nd act: it prevents them from paying taxes to Caesar
Let the evangelists have lied, or Jews who heard Jesus have hearing problems! For it is quite the opposite that Jesus preached and practiced: Luke 20.20-26.
3rd act: he himself said Christ the King
We touch here only one aspect coming out of complete lies. Even if Jesus refused throughout his life, opportunities that were given him to be king: 4.5 to 6 Luc and Jean 6.15, the truth lies in that which accuses the council before Pilate. The kingdom to which Jesus is called is just not the same as that exerted by the potentates of this world. Jesus will not fail to make it known to Pilate, without denying the fact, that indeed is the true king of the Jews: John 18.33 to 38. Forced to condemn Jesus under pressure: Luke 23.13-25 , Pilate found by means of his revenge. To the great displeasure of the Jewish authorities, it will validate on the cross in three languages affirmation of kingship of Jesus on them, so that by looking at the crucified, that they will read their own condemnation: John 19 , 19 to 22 .
Despite the seriousness of the evidence adduced and the vehemence of the accusers, Pilate finds nothing criminal in the actions or positions taken by Jesus, who deserves to die. Having heard that Jesus comes from Galilee, he chose, convenient solution to get rid of the problem by sending Jesus Herod who, coincidentally, was also in Jerusalem at this time.
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