Matthew 27:1-2, Jesus Delivered to Pilate

1 When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.2 And they bound him and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate the governor.

Comments

Now the leaders had to find a way to get the death penalty implemented. Roman law prohibited the Jews from carrying out the death penalty on their own. Knowing the personality of Pontius Pilate, they must have concocted a good plan to out govern the governor!

Prayer

While faith is with me, I am blest;

It turns my darkest night to day;

But, while I clasp it to my breast,

I often feel it slide away.

What shall I do if all my love,

My hopes, my toil, are cast away?

And if there be no God above

To hear and bless me when I pray?

Oh, help me, God! For thou alone

Canst my distracted soul relieve.

Forsake it not: it is thine own,

Though weak, yet longing to believe.

(Anne Brontë, 1820-1849)