In this series we’re considering the statements made by Pilate, the judge at the trial of the Lord Jesus. Pilate probably didn’t intend his words to be profound, but they are!

We hope you find them interesting and thought-provoking.

Then the governor said, “Why, what evil has He done?” (Matthew 27:23)

This is one of the questions that Pontius Pilate asked the baying Jerusalem mob who were demanding that Jesus be put to death. The crowd wanted Him crucified and yet Pilate could find no crime with which He could charge Him. In fact, Pilate said “I find no fault in Him at all” (John 18:38). Not only could he not find anything worthy of death in the Man who stood before him but he could find no trace of wrongdoing whatsoever. This was because this Man was no ordinary man but the Son of God: He was sinless. Pilate knew that Jesus’ enemies “had handed Him over because of envy” (Matthew 27:18) because He showed them up for what they were, sinners, through the way He lived His perfect life. They wanted rid of Him because He showed them that they were not good enough for God on their own merits. Nothing has changed over the past 2,000 years or so since this event took place. Each of us too constantly misses God’s mark of absolute perfection. The Bible tells us that “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23) but it also tells us that “there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all” (1 Timothy 2:5-6). Jesus was crucified to take God’s judgement for sin, so that we can be forgiven if we put our trust in Him. The apostle Paul wrote “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God through Him”. We can be made right with God if we trust in Christ. Do you accept He died for you?