Suffered Under Pontius Pilate

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Suffered Under Pontius Pilate

• Luke 22.66 23.25

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The council of the eldership

• The council (lit. Sanhedrin) was made up of
  approximately seventy members, some of whom were
  priests and Sadducees, while others were
  Pharisees (see Acts 231-9). Many, whether
  favoring the Sadducees or the Pharisees, were
  professional scribes and teachers of the law.
  This body represented the highest Jewish
  political and religious authority of the time
  (Evans 1990 334).

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Son of Man Son of God

• But from now on, the Son of Man will be seated
  at the right hand of the mighty God (22.69)
• Jesus statement may very well mean that the
  next time the members of the Sanhedrin see him,
  they will see him as their judge (Evans 1990
  335).

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Suffered under Pontius Pilate

• Once Pilate had taken funds from the sacred
  treasury known as Korban (cf. Matt. 276) to pay
  for the construction of an aqueduct in Jerusalem
  (Ant. 18.3.2 60-62 War 2.9.4 175-77), from
  his standpoint a normal thing to do. When he
  visited Jerusalem, a crowd of Jews protested this
  use of money devoted to the purchase of
  sacrificial animals. Pilate had interspersed
  among the crowd soldiers in civilian dress armed
  with cudgels. On an agreed signal they began to
  beat the rioters. A large number perished, and
  the protest was silenced (Ferguson 2003 416).

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Herod wanting to see Jesus
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Pontius Pilate

• Now, its not as if Pilate wanted to rescue
  Jesus because he thought he was good, noble, holy
  or just, but that Pilate wanted to do the
  opposite of what the chief priests wanted him to
  do because he always wanted to do the opposite of
  what the chief priests wanted him to do. That
  was his regular and settled modus operandi
  (Wright 1996 546).

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Why did Jesus die?

• Roman charge
• In terms of the Roman authorities the answer to
  the question why did Jesus die? is that Pilate
  not only put cynical power-games before justice
  (that was normal), but also, on this occasion,
  put naked self-interest before both (Wright
  1996 547).

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Why did Jesus die?

• Jewish charge
• In terms of the Jewish authorities, then, the
  question why did Jesus die? evokes (a) that
  Jesus was a false prophet leading Israel astray,
  (b) that he was a serious political liability,
  and (c) that, since it seemed to be a choice
  between killing him and letting the Temple and
  nation be jeopardized, he should be killed
  (Wright 1996 551, 550).

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Passover

• These are the LORDs appointed feasts, the
  sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their
  appointed times The LORDs Passover begins at
  twilight on the fourteenth day of the first
  month. On the fifteenth day of that month the
  LORDs Feast of Unleavened Bread begins for
  seven days you must eat bread made without yeast.
  On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do
  no regular work. For seven days present an
  offering made to the LORD by fire. And on the
  seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no
  regular work (Lev. 23.4-8).
• Day of Atonement