Heralds Digest

“So Pilate, wanting to gratify the crowd, released Barabbas to them; and he delivered Jesus, after he had scourged Him, to be crucified.” ‭‭Mark‬ ‭15:15‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ https://www.bible.com/114/mrk.15.15.nkjv Even before the days of social networking and online viral marketing, political pollsters and marketing mantras are determined by the ability to pull crowd. Crowdification has always been the preferred strategy to prosperity, promotion, and popularity. And despite being warned by his wife’s grant of caution, gratification of the crowd remained the dominant course of action before Pilate. Although parallel references declare that Pilate symbolically separated himself from the crowd’s call for Christ’s crucifixion by the washing of his hands in a bowl of water, he ordered for Christ’s scourging before releasing Him to the Jews for crucifixion. It implies that crowdification grants for popularity was more valuable to Pilate than the crucifixion for grace and the pursuit of peace. Anyon...

“Then Pilate asked Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?” He answered and said to him, “ It is as you say.” And the chief priests accused Him of many things, but He answered nothing.” ‭‭Mark‬ ‭15:2-3‬ ‭NKJV‬‬ https://www.bible.com/114/mrk.15.2-3.nkjv The only struggle about the cross took place at Gethsemane before the final submission to the Will of the Father. And this explained why Jesus answered Pilate nothing in defence of all spurious allegations and accusations. Basically, when submission to the perfect will of God in life, family and ministry is settled, the shenanigans arising from human confederation cannot unsettle the made-up mind. Oftentimes, human administrative, political and positional privileges are ascribed relevance above the established counsel of God. Unfortunately, the unsettled and make-belief submissions are thereby easily worn out by human manipulation, trials and temptation arising from the reality of life. Whereas, submission to the Will of God should only u...