Autobiography of Pontius Pilate, Part 3

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Published on May 2, 2023
We can see that Nicodemus, a Pharisee, and a notorious member of the Sanhedrin, were teaching Pontius Pilate how to successfully plot against Jesus Christ in the third and concluding installment of the series on Pontius Pilate and the Jews. The Jewish High Priest council frequently conducted business separately from the Romans and made decisions without getting approval from the Central Government. They exercised considerable power and frequently disregarded Roman laws. This included carrying out extralegal executions without the Romans', the era's Central Authority', consent. As a result, they served as a fifth column and a state within a state. Additionally, these Jewish elites had a tendency to be connected to one another through an extended family network. These types of racial and familial networking are referred to in modern jargon as "mishpucka.".

As the story progresses, Jesus is seen surrendering to the Roman authorities before ultimately being tried and found guilty in a kangaroo court at the urging of the Pharisees and Sanhedrin. Because he wasn't materialistic or power-hungry like the Jews who tried to kill him, Jesus didn't mind being crucified. In spite of Nicodemus' own admission that Jesus had been a just man and that it was wrong to put him to death by crucifixion, there was nothing he could do to stop it. The political power of the Pharisees and Sanhedrin was threatened by Jesus' spiritual teachings. He had to be eliminated because of this. Jesus was initially cast as an outcast and no longer a Judean by the Jews, who wanted to try and execute him in one of their own Kangaroo courts. However, doing so would reveal them to be puppet masters and the Romans to be their servants or tools. Not only that, but if Pontius Pilate didn't carry out the execution against Jesus for the alleged crime of treason against the State, the Jews might threaten or use blackmail to make him look unfaithful to the Emperor. Pontius didn't find a scrap of evidence against Jesus for treason, but he was willing to convict him of a much lesser crime in order to appease the Jews. Even that, however, was not enough to quench the Jews' thirst for blood and their vengeance.

Before Christ was to be crucified, Pontus Pilate reportedly decided to literally and ritualistically wash his hands in order to symbolize his hands being free from the deeds of punishing an innocent man unjustly. This was because he was so repulsed by the Jews' conduct, according to Pilate. It appears that Jesus was whipped before being nailed to a cross and killed. The guards who were supposed to be keeping an eye on the grave were shocked when it was claimed that Jesus had vanished from the tomb by Saturday morning. Pontius Pilate believed that Divine Intervention had actually occurred because the morning after the huge stone with ropes around it and blocking the entrance to the grave had been rolled over and the body of Jesus had vanished, despite the guards' claims that they had been on duty guarding the grave the entire night. Ironically, Pontius Pilate claimed that Jesus' physical characteristics were not Jewish but rather Greek-influenced (and thus more European looking), rather than Jewish. At the very end of the trial and afterward, Pontius Pilate had to travel to Caesarea and arrange for a copy of the report regarding Jesus to be sent to Tiberius. An edited version of Carlo Maria Franzero's Autobiography of Pontius Pilot provided the information that was repeated in the book "Pontius Pilate and the Jews.". Pastor Eli James concludes the broadcast by discussing his analysis of what was happening in Rome at the time in relation to the various Jewish subgroups present and their various connections to the Central Government in Rome.