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===THE TRIAL BEFORE PILATE===

===THE TRIAL BEFORE PILATE===

SHORTLY after six o'clock on this Friday morning, April 7, A.D. 30, Jesus was brought before Pilate. Though Pilate conducted much of Jesus' examination within the praetorium halls, the public trial was held outside on the steps leading up to the main entrance. When Jesus and his accusers had gathered in front of Pilate's judgment hall, the Roman governor came out, and addressing the company assembled, asked:

SHORTLY after six o'clock on this Friday morning, April 7, A.D. 30, Jesus was brought before Pilate.  

 

Though Pilate conducted much of Jesus' examination within the praetorium halls, the public trial was held outside on the steps leading up to the main entrance.  

 

When Jesus and his accusers had gathered in front of Pilate's judgment hall, the Roman governor came out, and addressing the company assembled, asked:

*"What accusation do you bring against this fellow?"  

*"What accusation do you bring against this fellow?"  

**"3. Calling himself the king of the Jews and teaching the founding of a new kingdom."

**"3. Calling himself the king of the Jews and teaching the founding of a new kingdom."

Jesus had not been regularly tried nor legally convicted on any of these charges. Pilate was so astonished at the unfairness of the whole proceeding and so impressed by Jesus' silent and masterly bearing that he decided to take the prisoner inside the hall and examine him privately. Pilate took Jesus and John Zebedee into a private chamber, leaving the guards outside in the hall, and requesting the prisoner to sit down, he sat down by his side. Pilate began his talk with Jesus by assuring him that he did not believe the first count against him: that he was a perverter of the nation and an inciter to rebellion.  

Jesus had not been regularly tried nor legally convicted on any of these charges.  

 

Pilate was so astonished at the unfairness of the whole proceeding and so impressed by Jesus' silent and masterly bearing that he decided to take the prisoner inside the hall and examine him privately.  

 

Pilate took Jesus and John Zebedee into a private chamber, leaving the guards outside in the hall, and requesting the prisoner to sit down, he sat down by his side. Pilate began his talk with Jesus by assuring him that he did not believe the first count against him: that he was a perverter of the nation and an inciter to rebellion.  

Then he asked:  

Then he asked:  

The guards took Jesus into the open courtyard of the praetorium for this ordeal. Though his enemies did not witness this scourging, Pilate did, and before they had finished this wicked abuse, he directed the scourgers to desist and indicated that Jesus should be brought to him.  

The guards took Jesus into the open courtyard of the praetorium for this ordeal. Though his enemies did not witness this scourging, Pilate did, and before they had finished this wicked abuse, he directed the scourgers to desist and indicated that Jesus should be brought to him.  

Before the scourgers laid their knotted whips upon Jesus as he was bound to the whipping post, they again put upon him the purple robe, and plaiting a crown of thorns, they placed it upon his brow. And when they had put a reed in his hand as a mock scepter, they knelt before him and mocked him, saying:  

Before the scourgers laid their knotted whips upon Jesus as he was bound to the whipping post, they again put upon him the purple robe, and plaiting a crown of thorns, they placed it upon his brow.  

 

And when they had put a reed in his hand as a mock scepter, they knelt before him and mocked him, saying:  

*"Hail, king of the Jews!"  

*"Hail, king of the Jews!"