Pilate answers his own question: Jesus is not guilty of any crime. The whole proceedings are a great reminder of the travesty of justice and the loss of human decency and integrity. Jesus is delivered into the hands of those who hate him. The Messiah is convicted on trumped up charges in an illegal trial. Jesus is rejected by people crying for his death while trying not to defile themselves ceremonially. The true King is rejected by God's people as they cry out that they have no king but Caesar. People committed to righteousness put the Lord to death and set a murderous criminal free. So when you feel mistreated, please remember the Lord. Before you feel abandoned ... betrayed ... and unjustly punished, remember Jesus. Then understand that he went through what he faced so that you could know the truth and that truth could set you free! If you have Jesus, you have everything and no one can take him away from you. That's the truth!