Picture from LatinTimes ‘You’re so powerless, Pilate,’ Jesus thought as he stood in the praetorium. The prefect of Caesar had washed his hands off his responsibility to uphold the truth. ‘What is truth?’ he had asked. He did not wait for an answer. Jesus was not going to answer him anyway. He knew as well as Pilate that definitions were not what mattered to either of them. ‘I am the truth,’ Jesus had said many times. ‘You are the truth,’ he would have told Pilate, ‘if you wish to be.’ ‘Crucify him! Crucify him!’ The crowd outside the praetorium clamours louder and louder. Being very religious, they have not entered the praetorium. The praetorium is a pagan place and Yahweh’s chosen people should not enter pagan places on the Passover day lest they be defiled. The High Priests, Annas and Caiaphas, instigated the people by wielding their religious power. Jesus had set the axe at the very root of their religion. Their religion meant rubrics a
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