Pilate Meets the Son of God...and It Scares Him

Pilate has a fascinating response to finding out that Christ claimed to be the Son of God. When Pilate hears this he "is more frightened than ever." Perhaps because his own wife has already sent him a message saying, "have nothing to do with that righteous, innocent man." Pilate does not listen, nor does he give in to the inner voice that tells him, "your wife is correct, buddy. You'd better listen to her." Unfortunately (on the other hand, fortunately for us), but in God's divine plan and providence, Pilate condemns an innocent man to death, one whom, ironically enough, Pilate himself has declared is innocent.

You have the spectacle of a guilty man declaring himself innocent of condemning an innocent man to death, and the irony of knowing that by that innocent man, Christ, Pilate himself will be declared guilty. Strange doings in history.