alphaQuad wrote:
> "gregjohn" <pte### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
>> "alphaQuad" <alp### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
>>
>> I think you miss some details:
>>> ... just so you can have a defining example ...
>> I don't think this is very high on the list of reasons Jesus had to die.
>>
>>
>>> ...a temper tantrum in the temple, the only case they had
>>> on him and only excuse for the nailing ...
>> Charges were blasphemy and treason.
> 
> Pilate said, (not word for word) something like, this is the same man that you
> welcomed just so many days ago and now you want him killed, explain this
> insanity to me. The one previously speaking didn't know what to say, another
> steps forward and says, you have not heard the worst of his crimes, he broke
> our Sabbath laws.

Pilate, even after all of the verbiage, was still all-go for setting 
Jesus free; not because Pilate was all that worked up about justice, but 
because like all politicians, keeping the appearance of honest courts is 
important.

Then Jesus' enemies said that Jesus had claimed to be a king, and that 
if Pilate didn't have him killed, they would inform Caesar that Pilate 
was doing nothing while a man was running around claiming to be king; at 
which point Pilate folded like a cheap tent.

Regards,
John

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