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These were the men who affected to be the leaders of the one pure faith on earth, a faith which looked with scorn on the "idolatry" of the cultured Roman. He must have regarded them with immense contempt. If his tone is cynical, it is but a match for the unmitigated cynicism of their conduct. Pilate inquires as to the crime with which the Prisoner is charged.
Here are some of the prices: "To Fawson for hanging Judas 4d. Paid to Fawson for cock crowing 4d. Some got much more than others. Pilate, for instance, who was an important character, got 4s., while two angels only got 8d. between them. But while the rehearsing and acting were going on the players received their food, and when it was all over they wound up with a great supper.
His father's mark was at the thirteenth chapter of Saint Luke's Gospel, and he read: "There were present at that season some that told Him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galileans were sinners above all the Galileans, because they suffered such things?
There must have been an unapproachable majesty in that great face, as so bedecked, with the indescribable suffering lines ever deepening, He stands before them with that wondrous calm still in those sleepless eyes. Pilate seems caught by the great spirit of Jesus dominant under such treatment. He points to Him and says, "Behold the Man!"
But this I know: of such stuff gods are made." "A charmer of women," was my privy judgment, as I left Pilate's wife walking in dreams and visions. The last days are known to all of you who read these lines, and it was in those last days that I learned that this Jesus was equally a charmer of men. He charmed Pilate. He charmed me.
The boat came back with Ching looking disappointed, and his yellow forehead ploughed with parallel lines. "Ching know," he said to me one evening mysteriously. "Know what?" I said. "Plenty pilate boat hide away in island. No come while big ship Teasler here." "Oh, wait a bit," I said; "we shall catch them yet." "No, catchee," he said despondently. "Pilate velly cunning.
In the presence of the priests of his own race Jesus is as indefinite and sophistical as he is before the Roman Pilate. The Priests "Art thou the Christ tell us?" Jesus. "If I tell you ye will not believe me." The Priests. "Art thou the Son of God?" Jesus. "Ye say that I am."
Crucify him! resounded on all sides; it re-echoed even from the flat roofs of the houses near the forum, where many persons were assembled. Pilate saw that all his efforts were vain, that he could make no impression on the infuriated mob; their yells and imprecations were deafening, and he began to fear an insurrection.
"Which would mean the end of Roman rule," I broke in. "That is where Caiaphas and Hanan plot to embroil Rome," Miriam explained. "It is not true. It is a lie they have made." Pilate nodded and asked: "Is there not somewhere in your ancient books a prophecy that the priests here twist into the intent of this fisherman's mind?" To this she agreed, and gave him the citation.
He judged Him to be an amiable enthusiast, from whom Rome had nothing to fear. So he went out and pronounced His acquittal: "I find in Him no fault at all." On Pilate there is an essay of extraordinary subtlety and power in Candlish's Scripture Characters. Acts xviii. 14-16. ethnos, not laos: they were speaking to a heathen. Keim calls it "a very flagrant lie."