23 Then the whole assembly rose and led him off to Pilate. 2 And they began to accuse him, saying, “We have found this man subverting our nation. He opposes payment of taxes to Caesar and claims to be Messiah, a king.”
3 So Pilate asked Jesus, “Are you the king of the Jews?”“You have said so,” Jesus replied.
4 Then Pilate announced to the chief priests and the crowd, “I find no basis for a charge against this man.”
5 But they insisted, “He stirs up the people all over Judea by his teaching. He started in Galilee and has come all the way here.”
6 On hearing this, Pilate asked if the man was a Galilean. 7 When he learned that Jesus was under Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem at that time.
This is the passage I will be writing about today. As you can see it is about Jesus and him being arrested. This is sort of in the middle of the story but it focuses on Pilate and how he finds no charge against Jesus. Pilate asks Jesus a very simple question, "are you the king of the Jews?" And the simple answer is 'yes' but Jesus says, 'you say so' which I have the question, why say that instead of yes? However, I have the answer to that now. It is because the Jews say the son of God is the king of the Jews. Jesus only calls himself that a few times. So the Jews call the son of God king of the Jews, so Jesus is saying(when he says "you say so") that I am the son of God. However, Pilate does not have a religion at this point so it does not matter to him that he is saying he is the son of man, so finds nothing wrong (or worth charging for) with him. And yet the people hate him, so Pilate does not know what to do. However, Jesus is Galilean, so Pilate sends him somewhere else, and someone else to take care of him. As we head towards Easter we should think about this.
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