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It is obvious that Satan has been at work when we consider the recent passages in Matthew’s gospel.
Jesus has been arrested and treated shamefully.
Trumped up charges have been brought before a kangaroo court that has already determined He is guilty of death before the first witness testifies.
He is beaten and mocked, before He is ever convicted.
He has been taken before both the former and current High Priest for trials.
He has stood before the Sanhedrin.
All of those trusted individuals treated Jesus in the same way.
The divorced justice from their minds and acted out of their hatred.
Satan is also at work in the lives of the disciples.
Judas has led the enemies of Jesus to a garden where Jesus was praying so that He could be arrested quietly and without incident.
The rest of the disciples have run away in fear.
Peter has denied that he even knew who Jesus was, much less followed Him.
And now we come to our present passages.
Satan is so at work in the life of Judas that Judas will be driven to kill himself.
Let’s look at the passages.
v.1 Here we have the third and final religious trial of Jesus.
After the morning comes the religious leaders reconvene for another ruling.
Rabbinical law stated that trials that included the possibility of capital punishment must take place during the daylight.
That is probably why we have them meeting again to give their ruling.
At this trial the group, once again, recommends that Jesus be put to death (26:66).
With the religious trials of Jesus accomplished we now move to the three Roman/political trials that Jesus endured.
It has no doubt been a time of spiritual darkness since Jesus was arrested at Gethsemane.
Cowardly disciples have denied and deserted the Lord.
Justice has been mocked as trumped up charges have been leveled against the Lord.
Judas has killed himself.
This is no doubt a satanic time.
Satan has been busy and accomplishing much.
A new person is introduced to us in this section.
His name is Pilate.
His actions will prove to us why he has become one of the most infamous men in history.
v.2 At this point Jesus is bound and taken to Pontius Pilate.
He was the governor of Judea from AD 26-AD 36.
Normally he would not have been in Jerusalem.
However, with the Passover taking place Rome needed a strong governing presence in the city to keep an eye on things.
The reason that the Sanhedrin took Christ before Pilate was because the Roman government alone had the power to inflict the death penalty (John 18:31).
The Jewish leaders waited outside.
They were not permitted to enter a Gentiles home.
If they did they would be considered ceremonially unclean for seven days and unable to eat the Passover (J 18:28).
v.11 Pilate was governor over the region of Judea.
He answered to Caesar.
His position was appointed and therefore it was in his best interest to make sure that Caesar was always happy with him.
The initial charge against Jesus was blasphemy (26:63-66).
That was enough to have Jesus put to death in the eyes of the Jewish religious leaders.
But it was not a serious enough charge for Rome to put someone to death.
Luke 23:1-2 shows us that the religious leaders brought separate charges when they presented Jesus to Pilate.
When we look at what Luke says we see the specific charges:
* He was perverting the nation.
Probably the Jews were not speaking of their own nation but the Roman nation.
The context seems to fit better.
Pilate would not care as much about loyalty to the Jewish nation as he would the Roman Empire.
They were probably implying that Jesus was turning people’s loyalty away from Caesar.
This would be a serious charge to any Roman leader.
* Forbidding giving tribute to Caesar.
They claimed that Christ was teaching the people not to pay their taxes to Rome.
This was an outright lie.
Jesus had said the opposite (Luke 20:25).
* Claiming to be a king.
The Roman government did not want another kingdom rising up.
Of course Jesus did claim to be a king.
However, He did not claim to be the type of king the charge implied.
His kingdom was not of this world.
“Christ a King” literally means that he claimed to be “the anointed king”.
These charges are clearly false.
Jesus never taught anyone to rebel against Rome.
In Matthew 5:41 He told the people if someone compelled them to go one mile, go two.
Jesus taught people to “render to Caesar what was Caesar’s (22:21).
The people had tried to make Jesus their earthly king at one point and Jesus refused (John 6:15).
Pilate addresses the charges and asks Jesus “Are you the king of the Jews?”
John tells us that there was a little more dialogue here.
After that initial question Jesus asks Pilate “Do you say this of your own accord or did others say it to you about Me?” Pilate responded by saying “Am I a Jew?
Your own people delivered you to me.
What have you done?” Jesus then tells Pilate that He is a king but His kingdom is not of this world.
If it were, His army would come and fight for Him.
The King James in Matthew 27:11 has Jesus saying “Thou sayest” to Pilate.
The original language communicates “It is as you say”.
Both John and Luke tell us that Pilate proceeds to go out and speak to the crowd at this point.
His intent is to have Jesus released.
In John 18:38 Pilate tells them “I find no guilt in this man.”
The people responded by saying to Pilate “He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry beginning from Galilee to this place”.
When Pilate heard that Jesus was a Galileen he had an idea.
He reasoned that since Herod Antipas was ruler over that region, Jesus was his problem.
Pilate immediately sent the council with Christ to Herod.
Herod was also in Jerusalem because of the Passover.
Luke 23:8-12 records the events.
Herod was happy to see Jesus.
Herod had wanted to see Jesus for some time.
The reason was not so that he could honor Jesus.
The reason was so that he could see Jesus perform a miracle.
Herod had proved to be an evil man in the beheading of John.
He was filled both with intrigue and fear when he heard the stories of Jesus (Luke 9:7-9).
Herod had many questions for Jesus.
Jesus had no answers for Herod.
Jesus refused to talk with Herod.
This is a fulfillment of Isaiah 53:7.
Herod was an evil man.
Jesus silence toward him probably is a sign of this.
Herod’s motives with Jesus were purely self-seeking.
While Jesus stood silent the religious leaders continued to passionately accuse Him of crimes just as they had done before Pilate.
Christ’s silence can be interpreted as His commitment to go to the cross.
Herod’s men ridiculed and mocked Jesus.
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