god standing right in front of him. this place was defining event of jesus ministry. he was crucified by the romans. he was raised from the dead. if you think of the impact christianity has had on the world, it comes back to one spot. we often interpret the death of jesus as a act. the pair dox heradox, without t of jesus, there is no
in all four gospel accounts, pilate offers the authorities a bizarre choice. there s a character called barabbas who is a violent revolutionary and he s been arrested, round about the same time that jesus has. you have a custom that i release someone for you at the passover. yes. it s the one chance he has to do a litmus test on what the crowd actually thinks about jesus. barabbas is offered as a dmois kind of a passover amnesty. who shall i release? barabbas or jesus? he has the power over life and death in judea, yet he s perfectly willing to throw this open to the crowd and say, you guys decide. barabs. sort of perplexing that pilate would have, under any circumstances, thought about letting go a rebel. barabbas. but of course, in the story, it s barabbas the violent
he was so loyal to the roman emperor who was considered a god that he couldn t see the true god standing right in front of him. this place was the defining event of jesus ministry. it s where he was crucified by the romans. it s where he was said to have raised from the dead. if you think of the impact that christianity has had on the world, it all comes back to one spot. golgotha, the church. we often interpret the death of jesus as a saving act, and yet the paradox here is that without pilate, there is no saving act. without the death of jesus, there is no christianity. captions by vitac www.vitac.com
a group of samaritans armed themselves on a religious pilgrimage. the moment the samaritans chose to take up arms, there was no way that incident was going to end other than pilate intervening. many people are killed. and the ring leaders of the movement are put to death. after the uprising is put down, the samaritans launch an official complaint against pilate, and so he s recalled to rome to answer the charges. but before he can get there, his patron, the emperor tiberius, dies. and we have no idea what happened to him once he reached rome. he just drops out of history. but the name of pilate will live on. pilate s tragic flaw was that
people. there s only two crimes under roman law that could lead to crucifixion. one would be sedition or high treason, the other is leading a slave revolt. well jesus didn t seem to be doing either of those to pilate. indeed. he has done nothing to deserve death. he stirs up the people. yeah. stirs up the people. he may have had a squabble about whether the temple apparatus wasn t done right or not, but that s still not sedition or high treason. ponchos pilate is put in a tough spot. he doesn t to want make a decision when that s his ultimate job. the power of life over death.