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Compare Matthew 27:12; Mark 15:3-4; John 19:9
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Jesus in these accounts is a bit like the proverbial hot potato. Each official is trying to pass him off to the next one, hoping that the other will handle the situation.
2.
There is real irony in the statement, at Luke 6:12, that Herod and Pilate were reconciled after a period of bad relations by their shared involvement in a gross — and, as it happened — historically pivotal travesty of justice.
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