Enter Pontius Pilate
Taken from Mark The People's Bible Commentary
author: Dick France
contributor: BRF - Dick France
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ENTER PONTIUS PILATE
It was one thing for a Jewish court to decide on the death penalty, but quite another to implement it. Under the direct Roman rule which had now been imposed in Judea the right to pronounce the death penalty was reserved to the Roman governor alone. So to achieve an execution they must secure a conviction also before Pontius Pilatus, the Prefect of Judea. And that was not necessarily going to be easy…
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