Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 73
Crucifixion 73 had gone to remote eastern lands. His promise, therefore, was that he would not be killed on the cross but would be given a long life to pursue his mission and that he was a Prophet not just for the two Israeli tribes living around him, but for all the Israelites. Together, the above two pieces of evidence provide the positive indication of what was to happen to Jesus Christ as after the Cruci- fixion. Events of the Crucifixion Another point relevant to this issue relates to the fixing of the date and time by Pilate for carrying out the Crucifixion. Even before he fixed the date and time we read of other things which, one should not be surprised to believe, might have played an impor- tant role regarding his final decision. First of all we know on the authority of the New Testament that Pilate’s wife was strongly averse to her husband passing judgement against Jesus as because of the influence of a dream she had the night before the trial of Jesus as. (Matt 27:19) She was so terrified by the effect of the dream, which led her to believe that Jesus as was absolutely innocent, that she thought it imperative to disturb the court proceedings to convey the message of the dream to her husband. Perhaps it was this urgent protesta- tion by his wife that led Pilate to make a show of absolving himself of the responsibility of his condemnation of Jesus as : So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the