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            Scripture tells us that Pontius Pilate did not want to do what he did. History says that, as Procurator of Judea, all capital cases were referred to him for final review. It was the Roman equivalent to an appellate court. If Christ has been a Roman citizen, he could have appealed his sentence of crucifixion to the Imperator in Rome. But he was a citizen of Judea. So he was subject to the supreme court of Judea - the Sanhedrin. The problem was that their state law would not let them snuff him. Only the Romans, by treaty and law, could kill Jesus.

            So the state court system dragged up an old accusation of heresy and made it stick. When they realized they had painted themselves into a corner they remained intractable, even unto Jesus's death. The state court had to make brand new precedent by forcing Pilate to accept the case as a ruling on Treason.

            But Pilate was no fool. He knew exactly what the old scoundrels of the state court (the Sanhedrin) were doing, and he wanted no part of it. It may even have been that he had actual, first or second hand knowledge of Jesus' actions at the Temple and could have even admired him for disrupting - at least for a day - the corruption of the money changers (also knowing that any tweak to the Judean state was a bonus for Ceasar).

            Pilate may even have been puzzled that, on this Holiest of Holy weekends, here were these heads of the Judean state, running about - first to him, then to the King, then back to him - trying to do murder to a pain in the butt, but mostly innocent, guy.

            Now, there is one similarity, but it is only a similarity, to the events of this week: Jesus had no defense. But we are led to believe that Jesus refused to defend himself before Pilate. Terri could not defend herself at all. And we don't know what her choice ever was.

            Nevertheless, Pilate was a good politician, and he could not ignore the political ramifications of NOT showing up clean in the eyes of the mob. He gave Christ at least two really good cop outs and Jesus passed. The rest is history.

            Of course, it's also true that the traditional Saints were usually martyred during Holy festivals.

            Once that's done, it could be retrained to go for Florida politicians and lawyers. Finally, all the Orange State bureaucrats, bad doctors, and people with "III" appended to their names (in most states, like South Carolina, there is no problem with this, but in Florida, it seems to be a disease). But in my Speilberg production, no one would be killed by all this chewing. Instead, the T-Rex could be trained to munch in a manner that just left his victims maimed, so that they were all in a persistent vegetative state - with trachial feeding tubes. And liars for spouses.

            So, have a great weekend, and/or a Happy Easter.
(We're not forgetting Passover, it's just not time for it, yet - April 23rd - May 1st, unless, of course, you're reform, and then it's April 23rd - April 30th.)