"Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews?" asked Pilate, knowing it was out of envy that the the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him. But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have Pilate release Barabas instead. "What shall I do, then, with the one you call the king of the Jews?" Pilate asked them. "Crucify him!" they shouted. "Why? what crime has he committed?" asked Pilate. But they shouted all the louder, "Crucify him!"
I'm shocked by these verses and just how dead set the crowd was against Jesus, and I'm shocked at how the chief priests had so much persuasive power that they were able to get the entire crowd riled up to sentence Jesus to death. They didn't even seem to know why he was being sentenced but they did it anyways. These verses make me think about my own life and I pray that I will never follow any person blindly as that crowd seemed to do.
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