Trial Before Pilate Chapter 3

When Pilate declared, "I find no reason for a charge against this man," he was saying that Jesus had done nothing, that Jesus had no fault, that there was nothing blamable in this case. In essence, Pilate was saying that Jesus was sinless! Can you imagine? From the mouth of a pagan, Roman governor comes the proclamation of truth about Christ, while the religious leaders were screaming for crucifixion. Could part of the problem have been the way the Jerusalem leaders looked at Jews from Galilee? There was a definite divide between them in the religious culture of that day. Jesus was considered to be one of "those" people from Galilee who could not possibly have known better than "us," the elite of Jerusalem!