i always wondered what God thought of Pilate...he did in fact try to reason with the crowd and said there was no reason to condemn Christ and went as far as saying “its on you”...
Pilate was a classic cowardly politician. Though he knew that Jesus was innocent and being lynched by a group that was jealous of Him, he non-the-less let Jesus be murdered, so long as Pilate could blame it on someone else. Pilate also scored some brownie points with Herod when he sent Jesus to be examined by Herod as well.
Pilate would make a great Rino in today’s Washington.
Indeed.