Our story has progressed from where we left off last time. Jesus and the disciples left the upper room and went to the garden where Jesus was arrested while at prayer. His response to their demand for Him of “I am he” proved to be enlightening to the soldiers and guards who had come to take Him in, but He went along quietly in order to accomplish God’s redemptive purpose. He was taken before the Jewish leaders, roughed up and convicted of a phony charge in a joke of a trial. Peter, as Jesus had predicted, denied knowing Jesus three times, and now, early the next morning He is taken before Pilate, the ranking Roman official, for trial because only the Romans could impose capital punishment.
In vv. 28-32, the Jews approach Pilate with the request that he condemn Jesus to death. Note that Pilate doesn’t seem interested…
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