27.4 They claim not to be responsible, and yet they acknowledge it as blood money (6). What happened to the command against murder?
27.19 How does Matthew know all this? Somebody in Pilate’s household must have become a believer and told him: perhaps even Pilate or his wife?
27.24 Disclaiming responsibility, like the chief priests (4). To be fair, Judas (5) and the people (25) both accept responsibility.
27.28 As in Iraq, nakedness used as humiliation (also v35).
As always, Tom shows us a fresh perspective. In the train accident, “nobody is to blame.” At the Crucifixion, everybody is to blame. Then again, yesterday Peter found that Jesus was dying in his place; and today, Barabbas discovers the same. In fact, at the Crucifixion, Jesus dies in place of all of us.
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