In his journey to the cross, Jesus was brutally

beaten. He was bounced from ruler to ruler to be interrogated. But who was

really being examined? Today on Truth For Life weekend we'll take a closer

look at Pilots' interrogation of Jesus. Alistair Begg is teaching from the

Gospel of John, we're starting with the closing verses of chapter 18.

By the time we get to the verses that we read together, it is actually the

morning of good Friday. If we have thought in terms of the time process here as

being protracted in some way, then we have thought inaccurately. And the pale gray

light has passed into the dawn of another morning and from the slope on the

other side of the temple mount where you find or would have found in those days

the temple of Caiaphas, these individuals, this melancholy procession has made

its way through the narrow streets and to the upper city of Jerusalem and has

now approached the palace of the Roman governor. That's what John tells us. The

Jews then led Jesus from the palace that was that of Caiaphas to the place of

the dwelling of the Roman governor. Prior to this in the scenes that had taken

place there in the jurisdiction of Caiaphas, Jesus had been abused and

maligned greatly. Indeed we're told in one of the other Gospels that they spat

in his face, they struck him with their fists, they slapped him and they said

prophesied to his Christ who hit you. Now these same people who were involved in

this are those who are then described here as being so concerned in verse 28 to

avoid the ceremonial uncleanness which would be there as a result of entering

the palace. What strange perversity it is that man can be guilty of such dreadful

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