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The matter somewhere short of execution. >> perhaps, pilate is hoping this will be sufficient and the jewish authorities will accept this. >> look, i am bringing him out to you to let you know that i find no case against him. >> pilate says, i find no crime in this man. and he gets jesus, and he puts him in front of the jewish authorities, but this is a man whose been horribly flogged. >> here is the man. >> he's wearing regalia, purple robe, a crown on his head, and pilate says -- >> behold the man. >> behold the man.

>> pilate is really trying to figure out, is this a rabbi from galilee and followers who think he's special or someone who has come specifically in order to overthrow roman power? >> are you the king of the jews? >> he's trying to ascertain whether jesus is a political threat to roman power in judea. >> if you say so. >> blasphemy. >> in luke's account of the trial, pilate's verdict is swift. >> i find no places for an accusation against this man. >> i think that pilate himself had grave doubts that jesus was really a military threat. so how dangerous could he really be? >> no, no, he stirs up...

All the sudden you serendipitously reading your whole life, studying your whole life and it's like this aha, oh my goodness, i get why jesus came here. >> reporter: jerusalem is the epicenter of three great faiths, christianity, judaism, and islam. more than half of the visitors to the country are christians. coming increasingly from asia and african nations. leading parishioners from ohio to the site of the visitation where mary is said to have praised god after learning she is the mother of jesus. father steve rinaski said the history is meant to help us live our faith today. >> when you go ...

>> my kingdom is not of this world. >> jesus says, my kingdom is not of the character of worldly kingdoms. it's not of this world. i came to bring the truth. >> everybody who belongs to the truth listens to my voice. >> what is truth? >> when pilate asks jesus, what is truth, we have a great example of dramatic irony. here is the man who is acting as judge and jury in a sense over this man's life, truth should be exactly the thing that he understands. >> pilate's not understanding jesus is not forthcoming, the jewish authorities want him over and done with. they want him dead. >> then, accordi...

>> that, of course, was sedition, it was rebellion, it was absutely not what any jew should be involved in since the temple is sack ra sanctuary. >> if what jesus was saying was able to rally the people around him, that could create the kind of unrest that would be a serious problem for kyra fas. >> his whole upbringing taught him that protecting the temple was the most important thing. >> this is the most holy place on earth. and here comes this prophet from where? from nowhere, from galilee trying to disrupt their activities there. >> quite clearly, jesus had to be eliminated. >> but only on...