Pilate said. "Don't you realize I have power either to free you or to crucify you?"
His wife even pled with him, "Don't have anything to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered a great deal today in a dream because of him."
Yet he buckled under the Jewish religious leders demands and crucified an innocent man. Does that make him a coward, or was he just being pragmatic about keeping order?
2007-11-11 16:25:23 · 7 answers · asked by Bill X 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Prophecy had to be fulfilled and Pilate was a part of that. God had sent Jesus to die on the cross for the sins of all mankind. Pilate had to turn Jesus over to die or prophecy would not be fulfilled and the world would be lost to sin.
Pilate was not a Christian, he was not a man of God - he tried to offer a trade to the people because he felt Jesus was not being justly accused; however, the very people he was trying to appease wanted the criminal Barabbas released rather than Jesus. This, too was to enable prophecy to be fulfilled.
The greater good for the multitude. Jesus understood this - that is why He told his father to take the cup from Him if it was HIs will or if He wouldn't so be it.
I am grateful every day for the salvation I have through Jesus and the blood He shed for me on Calvary.
2007-11-11 16:42:36 · answer #1 · answered by marshfield_meme 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pilate was acting like all too many policians. He decided what to do by essentially taking an opinion poll instead of deciding the issue based on right and wrong. He was a coward.
2007-11-11 16:30:18 · answer #2 · answered by Northstar 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Pilate, in order to absolve himself of the decision, used an old custom and allowed the people to choose who would die. The people, who where not all Jews, chose barabus. After the decision pilate ceremonally washed his hands, therefore in his mind, relieving himself of any of the guilt of the choice made.
It's where we get our saying, "I wash my hands of this"
2007-11-11 16:33:12 · answer #3 · answered by brianwv64 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I go with option two. Simply because if he knew what he was going to do by martyring him he would have told the Jewish leaders to Kiss is @ss.
2007-11-11 16:29:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It was pre-ordained. Pilate had no choice, whether he thought he did or not.
2007-11-11 16:29:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, that whole scene was written to make it seem like the Jews were entirely at fault for Jesus’ death.
2007-11-11 16:28:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
He was just being a politician. Things haven't changed much.
2007-11-11 16:28:10 · answer #7 · answered by ∞ sky3000 ∞ 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋