19:1 當下彼拉多將耶穌鞭打了。
19:2 兵丁用荊棘編做冠冕戴在他頭上，給他穿上紫袍，
19:3 又挨近他，說：「恭喜，猶太人的王啊！」他們就用手掌打他。
19:4 彼拉多又出來對眾人說：「我帶他出來見你們，叫你們知道我查不出他有甚麼罪來。」
19:5 耶穌出來，戴著荊棘冠冕，穿著紫袍。彼拉多對他們說：「你們看這個人！」
19:6 祭司長和差役看見他，就喊著說：「釘他十字架！釘他十字架！」彼拉多說：「你們自己把他釘十字架吧！我查不出他有甚麼罪來。」
19:7 猶太人回答說：「我們有律法，按那律法，他是該死的，因他以自己為上帝的兒子。」
19:8 彼拉多聽見這話，越發害怕，
19:9 又進衙門，對耶穌說：「你是哪裡來的？」耶穌卻不回答。
19:10 彼拉多說：「你不對我說話嗎？你豈不知我有權柄釋放你，也有權柄把你釘十字架嗎？」
19:11 耶穌回答說：「若不是從上頭賜給你的，你就毫無權柄辦我。所以，把我交給你的那人罪更重了。」
19:12 從此，彼拉多想要釋放耶穌，無奈猶太人喊著說：「你若釋放這個人，就不是凱撒的忠臣（原文是朋友）。凡以自己為王的，就是背叛凱撒了。」
19:13 彼拉多聽見這話，就帶耶穌出來，到了一個地方，名叫「鋪華石處」，希伯來話叫厄巴大，就在那裡坐堂。
19:14 那日是預備逾越節的日子，約有午正。彼拉多對猶太人說：「看哪，這是你們的王！」
19:15 他們喊著說：「除掉他！除掉他！釘他在十字架上！」彼拉多說：「我可以把你們的王釘十字架嗎？」祭司長回答說：「除了凱撒，我們沒有王。」
19:16 於是彼拉多將耶穌交給他們去釘十字架。
Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. 2 The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe 3 and went up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they slapped him in the face.
4 Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews gathered there, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him.” 5 When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”
6 As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!”
But Pilate answered, “You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him.”
7 The Jewish leaders insisted, “We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.”
8 When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid, 9 and he went back inside the palace. “Where do you come from?” he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer. 10 “Do you refuse to speak to me?” Pilate said. “Don’t you realize I have power either to free you or to crucify you?”
11 Jesus answered, “You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”
12 From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jewish leaders kept shouting, “If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar.”
13 When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge’s seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is Gabbatha). 14 It was the day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about noon.
“Here is your king,” Pilate said to the Jews.
15 But they shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!”
“Shall I crucify your king?” Pilate asked.
“We have no king but Caesar,” the chief priests answered.
16 Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified. So the soldiers took charge of Jesus.
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主耶穌被釘十字架的事件，表面看來像是一位無能的總督被百姓所駕馭一般。這是一種假民主的現象，是一群盲目的民眾被他們的大祭司煽動，來壓迫主耶穌。這簡直像中國「文化大革命」之紅衛兵的行動一般，利用群眾之力量來壓迫無辜的人。這是一種非常可怕的結構性犯罪，甚至把壓迫合法化！
當然就主耶穌是全能的上帝，祂可以抵抗這種壓迫，可以改變這種狀態。但是祂沒有，祂甚至不為自己辯白。祂只是向比拉多說：「若不是從上頭賜給你的，你就毫無權柄辦我。所以，把我交給你的那人罪更重了。」
比拉多雖然不願讓主耶穌受刑罰，但是他敵不過民眾，民眾反過來要脅他：「你若釋放這個人，就不是凱撒的忠臣（原文是朋友）。凡以自己為王的，就是背叛凱撒了。」
上帝為了彰顯示人的罪惡，就透過完全不抵抗的主耶穌，讓祂被釘十字架，使不會死亡的竟遭受死亡，好讓會死亡的變成不會死亡，這是超越我們的小腦袋可以理解的大能，有人稱這大能為「無能者的大能」！
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