"What's he done wrong?" Mark 15:14.
The Roman governor, Pilate, asks the chief priests (and their unruly mob). What bad things had Jesus done to deserve a guilty verdict? Now, some folks like to say Pilate was kind of a good guy, caught between a rock and a hard place, that he had no choice in life's circumstances. (That's our own way of justifying our own lack of character, of course.) Consider Pilate's choices: Appease a mob, or keep a good man safe? Pardon a condemned insurrectionist murderer, or uphold the innocent? Honor a righteous man, or horsewhip him for the crowd's fun? Exercise authoritative power to defend the guiltless, or to order Jesus crucified? Pilate chose what he preferred just fine.
As we meet a brother or sister today we remind each other how Jesus, doing no wrong, entrusted himself wholly to God who judges justly. And together we give soul-deep thanksgivings for that trust.
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