So just as we have the opportunity to just hear the passion and reflect on the passion

of our Lord, there's something about this that I think there's some parts of the story

that makes sense and I don't mean that in a bad way, but I think there's some parts

that people's actions make sense.

For pilot, it makes sense.

It has a much political pressure on himself that, yeah, even though he knows this is wrong,

he's going to do it anyways because that's sometimes what happens.

At the moment where the guard strikes Jesus, he thinks he thinks he's talking back to

the high priest.

And so that makes sense that he would do that.

Even the fact that Jesus was scourged, we talk about this I think last Sunday or two

Sundays ago, what it meant to be scourged.

The fact that that even happened, all those pieces make sense because that was their

orders.

They were ordered to do this.

The part that doesn't make any sense.

You see here, again, John's gospel, we just heard it.

It says this, it says, it's a pilot took Jesus and had him scourged.

Okay, we got that.

Then it says, and then the soldiers will have a crown out of the thorns and placed it

upon his head and they clothed him in purple cloak and they came to him and said, hail

king of the Jews.

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