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Today on Truth for Life, we'll look at the Roman ruler, Pontius Pilot, and the dilemma he faced when it was his turn to judge Jesus.

Alistair Begg is teaching from Luke, chapter 23 verses 13 through 25. Pilot must decide. He can put it off, try and sidestep it as he's been doing, but frankly he's been quite unsuccessful.

What am I going to do with Jesus of Nazareth?

How did I end up in this position he must have said to himself? He certainly talked it over with his wife. His wife had various comments to make.

As a Roman, and the Romans have given us many of our laws, he would have had a Roman dislike for gross injustice.

And since he didn't like injustice, that would kind of point towards letting Jesus go.

So try as best you can to put yourself in his position for a moment.

Here he is confronted by this crowd, religious officials. He is presiding over a territory.

He is responsible for its jurisdiction for the maintaining of order and the quelling of any kind of civil disruption, justice speaks in his mind

and says, release Jesus, conscience speaks to him and says Jesus should not die, his gut if you like, if we might

say so, just says release him. And when he presses this group and asks them explicitly what

crime has he committed all they're able to do is shout him down.

And the reason they shout him down is because they know that Jesus is innocent.

Pilot knows that he's innocent.

But he does. Violet knows that he's innocent, but he just can't commit himself to do the right thing.

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