Wishing to satisfy the crowd.

How's that for an epitaph, Pilate, who wished to satisfy the crowd?

Write that in stone over his life.

It's a despicable thing.

Over and over and over, he declares the innocence of Jesus.

But he released Barabbas for them, and after having Jesus scourged, he handed him over to be crucified.

Welcome to Grace to You with the Bible teaching of John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

Can you remember the excitement you felt as a kid when you opened a

Christmas present you desperately wanted? Of course, no matter how great the gift, your enthusiasm about it

probably waned over time until one day you probably forgot about it altogether. Well, if Christ

has transformed your heart, you have received the greatest gift of all,

eternal life. That's not something you're going to forget about completely. Yet there can be times

when the joy of salvation grows cold. In moments like those, you need fresh reminders of what

Christ has done for you. And really, we all need those reminders all the time.

John MacArthur's current series is helping with that. It's called the Divine Drama of Redemption.

So now, with some helpful refreshers concerning Christ's work for sinners, here's John.

Let's open the Word of God to the 15th chapter of Mark's Gospel.

And in this particular portion of Scripture, we meet this fascinating character by the name

of Pilate.

He is a name to add to the Rogues Gallery that we've been accumulating in the drama

of the murder of Jesus, names like Judas and

Anus and Caiaphas and Herod and now the Roman governor by the name of Pilate.

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