Quotes from Simon Webb

This is perhaps the most chilling moment in Mark's account. The crowd is asked a simple question, which it refuses to answer, offering only a call for violence. The moment might stand as a warning about all those times when fear, anger, prejudice, blind obedience or blood-lust blank out reason and justice.

two hundred furlongs.

Am I a Jew? [ . . . ] Your own people and chief priests handed you over to me. What is it you have done?

the sign that was put on Jesus' cross, saying in Hebrew, Latin and Greek that Jesus was the King of the Jews

The Emperor was a bitter, cruel, unpredictable and depraved man, not above murdering people he perceived as his enemies, even if they were relatives.