Comments by "Snack Plissken" (@snackplissken8192) on "The Truth About Jesus' Arrest: The Missing Facts" video.

I always got the impression that Pilot's only real interest with Jesus was whether he had a claim of secular authority in Roman occupied territory, given how he was done once he heard that Jesus' kingdom was not of this world. It seemed to me that Pilot was probably sick and tired of hearing religious disputes that were couched as threats to the empire, and he wanted to cut to the chase on whether this was religious leaders trying to get him to do their dirty work for them. The way he tried to release Jesus and eventually dumped the responsibility for his death back on the religious leaders suggests this is a reasonable take.
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