To: Antoninus
The weak, vacillating and ultimately cruel and cowardly figure of Pontius Pilate is one of the most enigmatic figures in Sacred Scripture. The one person.. the ONLY person... to try to block Jesus's crucifixion... not once, not twice, but THREE times... when even Jesus knows what has to happen to get all of our sins forgiven... and yet Pilate still gets unending hatred for 2000 years. SMH.
17 posted on
04/20/2019 4:39:53 PM PDT by
Teacher317
(We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
To: Teacher317; Antoninus
Teacher317, I think you are not giving due consideration to Pilate's wife, who is the ONLY person who unambiguously stood up for Jesus and called him innocent at the time of his trial (Matthew 27:19).
Pilate knew he was innocent, but allowed him to be crucified: a form of punishment only the Roman law could inflict.
18 posted on
04/20/2019 4:57:23 PM PDT by
Mrs. Don-o
(Lord have mercy on us, your scattered children.)
To: Teacher317
The one person.. the ONLY person... to try to block Jesus's crucifixion... not once, not twice, but THREE times...
He did not "try to block" the crucifixion. He had the power to nullify the whole proceeding -- the lynching of an innocent man. Instead of doing so, he let the lynch-mob have their way and gave it the official imprimatur of the government.
23 posted on
04/22/2019 6:46:50 AM PDT by
Antoninus
("In Washington, swamp drain you.")
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