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Pontius Pilate
28th June 1847
[1] This is a good question, worth a good answer, thus the answer will follow:
[2] Pontius Pilate, a pure Roman, was – subject to Tiberius – the chief governor of Judea and lived in Jerusalem.
[3] This Roman, an enemy of the extremely haughty Jewish priesthood, began to – even only in secret – see all people with particular benevolence. He was per occasion able to tell these above measure hated Jewish priesthood the straight truth in their faces. When the priesthood would try to find some justice with him, he usually found little to none; without the case being solved, they retreated in shame and this was the reason why Pilate and Herod lived in continuous animosity. For the high priesthood had good record with Herod and did not spare to make Pilate suspect to Herod.
[4] Exactly for this reason, the high priesthood have often counselled how they could catch Me and effectively hand me over to the Roman court, but they never found a good reason.
[5] When I performed the well known entry, then shortly after that drove the merchants from the temple and resurrected Lazarus – and the whole nation shouted Hosanna in My honour, it was too much for the high priesthood. They then seriously decided to catch me and deliver me to Pilate as a state rebel. If he would convict me, he would stay unscathed; if not, then they (the priesthood) would accuse him to the Caesar as being a suspect person, in which Herod would have supported them with joy. (Matt 21:1-9, 12-13; Mark 11:1-10, 15-17; Luke 19:28-38, 45-46; John 12:12-19)
[6] This plan was not unknown to Pilate, he just did not know how to make a fire-break against this and he decided to just wait. But while he was still conferring with himself about what he should do if the high priesthood would really want to pull a stint on him with this famous Jesus, see, they already came with the prisoner and demanded immediate conviction. Pilate, completely taken aback, of course answered with a thunderous voice: “What criminal deed did this righteous man do in whom I could find no guilt ?” But the priesthood and their paid adherents shouted ten times louder: “He deceives the people, he is a rebel, a Sabbath desecrater, a God-blasphemer and He regard Himself to be the Son of the living God ! All this demanded, according to our laws respected by Rome as well as Caesar's laws, punishment by death in the highest degree; you therefore have to convict him, let him be crucified, or you are the enemy of the Caesar !” (Matt 27:2; Mark 15:1; Luke 23:1,2; John 18:28)
[7] This call made Pilate hesitate and he did not at all knew what to do. He quickly thought to himself that there is nothing other to be done but to feign a friendly demeanour in the face of this as such unexpected evil plot and to submit in the name of the incomprehensible fate to what this above all hated priesthood expected of him.
[8] But exactly here his wife, Tullia Innocentia, called him and told him in secret what she saw with clear eyes, that this Jesus have hovered in the clouds of heaven, accompanied with countless milliards of the most glorious angels. All of them shouted with a thunderous voice: “Glory to our great God, glory the eternal, almighty conqueror of death and hell ! But woe Jerusalem ! Woe you who live therein, your fate will be eternal death, eternal destruction, for you did not recognised Jesus, but you convict and crucify Him ! The alone righteous of all eternal righteousness, eternal honour, praise and all glory ! Then this Jesus looked down to the earth and see, the whole earth ignited, everything was alight and everything that breaths was burnt by this fire. “Therefore, dear Pilate, have nothing to do with this righteous man !”
[9] This story made Pilate seriously doubt, since he had, as a Roman, great affinity for such phenomena. He consequently decided to undertake nothing more with Jesus except for to
surrender Him to Herod who, regarding such occasions, had the jus gladii, according to which he also had the right to behead John. But Herod became suspicious and knew very well that the people, because of John, was rebellious against him. If he would let Christ be killed, the people would tear him apart; therefore he sent Jesus, which was regarded by many as the Christ (Messiah), neatly back to Pilate. (Luke 23:7, 11b)
[10] Pilate tried everything to free Jesus, but it was all in vain, until he in greatest self-excuse washed his hands in public and said: “I want no guilt at the blood of this righteous one ! But you have a law yourselves, take him and convict him !” Then the high priests screamed: “Let His blood come on us and our children ! But we may not defile our hands with blood, therefore give us soldiers !“ (Matt 27:24,25)
[11] When Pilate heard this, he thought of an old custom according to which a criminal had to be loosed for the Jewish people at Passover. He turned for one more time to the crowd of Jesus' enemies and acknowledged that he, on grounds of his short investigation, never found any guilt in Him, that it would request more time for proper examination to pass a correct and righteous judgement. It was in any way the custom to free a criminal for the people on the feast day; so he gave them free choice between Jesus, who's guilt was not yet proven and Barabbas, the renowned robber-murderer – whom would they choose ? But they all screamed: “Barabbas !” That was what Pilate wished for, for he knew very well that this excited crowd of priests would not want Jesus to be free. By this he believed that he would be able to free Jesus by freeing Barabbas, to make Jesus take his place in prison. In time everything could be sorted out; for first the priests' mouths would be silenced and secondly could he, through the authority of the Roman Caesar, put up significant hindrances through which they could not easily break ! (Matt 27:15, 17, 21; Mark 15:6; Luke 23:17; John 18:39)
[12] The thoughts and will of the chief was good. But when the crowd after Barabbas was freed, stubbornly persisted to have a crucifixion and wanted to hear nothing about Jesus going to jail and called Pilate a coward, he became very disturbed and said: “There, you villains ! Take your criminal who are more righteous than you and there are the soldiers ! Go away, do with him what you want, my witness about Him will follow you from my own hand !” With these words he left them and left Jesus in their power. The priests made the soldiers to grab and crucify Him as is known. (Matt 27:26; Mark 15:15; Luke 23:24,25; John 18:16)
[13] You are acquainted with what Pilate did then, that he supported the friends of Jesus in whatever they asked of him. But that Pilate and his wife later became Christians and that Pilate had a hand in the complete destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman less than thirty years later because of his (Pilate) detailed description of the very suspect Jewish priesthood who was dispersed to all parts of the world, very few people on earth knows. But it is revealed to you, that you would not condemn the poor Pilate thousands and millions of times over. You should know that all had to happen according to My eternal council, as I openly told the two disciples on the road to Emmaus, to show them what God wanted and that they should curb their unbridled hatred towards the priests.
[14] You do not really hate Pilate, you regard him as a 'damned fellow', who could easily have saved Me, if he only seriously wanted to. But you don't think about it that God can impossibly be saved by weak people of any danger. Or do you really think, in all seriousness, that Pilate could have done something like that, namely to save Him who command the seas and the winds, He who is the saviour of all people and spirits ? O look, this and a few more things is still very weak with you and still strongly Babylonian (Roman) ! Scripture had to be fulfilled and and all who did not know what they did, was forgiven on the cross. If that is so, let the poor Pilate live some more in the future than what was the case with you up till now. Amen ! I tell you this, that you should not judge Pilate any more ! Amen, Amen, Amen !