Luke 23:13-16<\/a><\/p>\nCompare Luke 23:4, 22; John 18:38<\/p>\n
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As the Roman procurator of Judea, Pilate had no interest \u2014 and no legal responsibility to be<\/em> interested \u2014 in questions of Jesus theology and law. \u00a0He was there, simply, to maintain to maintain order and to protect the interests of Rome.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Accordingly, once he had discovered that Jesus wasn\u2019t seditious and posed no threat to Roman sovereignty, he saw nothing in him that was worthy of capital punishment \u2014 a sentence that only Roman occupation authorities could impose.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 Luke 23:13-16 Compare Luke 23:4, 22; John 18:38 \u00a0 As the Roman procurator of Judea, Pilate had no interest \u2014 and no legal responsibility to be interested \u2014 in questions of Jesus theology and law. \u00a0He was there, simply, to maintain to maintain order and to protect the interests of Rome. \u00a0 Accordingly, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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