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Updated: May 24, 2025
Accordingly, after passing sentence on Jesus themselves, the Sanhedrists had to lead Him away to the tribunal of the governor. The representative of Imperial Rome in Palestine at this time was Pontius Pilate.
The prejudice of the sanhedrists who excommunicated the man for his loyalty to Jesus led him in indignation to contrast their method of caring for God's "sheep" with his own love and sympathy and genuine ministry to their needs. The critics of Jesus could not, or would not, understand his charge against them, and accused him of madness for his extraordinary claims.
Singling out the Sanhedrists, who probably at that moment would rather have kept in the background, He demanded, pointing to their excessive preparations, "Be ye come out as against a thief, with swords and staves? When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against Me."
But this brief interval was utilised by the Sanhedrists to persuade the multitude. It must be remembered that this was not the Galilean crowd by which Jesus had been brought in triumph into the city a few days before, but the mob of Jerusalem, with whom the ecclesiastical authorities had influence. The priests and scribes, then, mingled among them and used every artifice they could think of.
As the parable of the Prodigal Son is an epitome of the whole teaching of Christ, so is the salvation of the thief on the cross the life of Christ in miniature. Both thieves appear to have joined in taunting Jesus, in imitation of the Sanhedrists.
Still, their words were not forgotten in the quarter to which they were directed; and it was not long before the curse which they had invoked descended on their city and their race. Meanwhile they gained their end: the will of Pilate was breaking down before their well-directed persistency. "On the return of Jesus from Herod, the Sanhedrists do not seem to have been present.
Peter, in the beginning of Acts, expressly extends the plea of ignorance so far as to cover even the Sanhedrists "And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers" and who will believe that the heart of the Saviour was less comprehensive than that of the disciple? Let us not be putting limits to the divine mercy.
Yet Jesus had no faster friends than the women who followed from Galilee and ministered to him of their substance, and the two sanhedrists, Joseph whose new tomb received his body, and Nicodemus whose liberality provided the spices which embalmed him; for these, and not the Galilean fishermen, were faithful to the last at the cross and at the grave.
The passage has three stages the fencing between the Sanhedrists and Pilate, the 'good confession before Pontius Pilate, and the preference of Barabbas to Jesus. I. The passage of arms between the priests and the governor.
But, except to bless and to encourage, and to add to the happiness and hope of others, Jesus spoke not. So far as the malice of the passers-by, and of priests and sanhedrists and soldiers, and of these poor robbers who suffered with him, was concerned as before during the trial so now upon the cross he maintained unbroken his kingly silence.
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