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A man of power, without control
an inquisitor questioned
proconsul rebuked, challenged,
An innocent king,
brought before him,
without stain, without blemish,
with love, healing, giving,
brought for judgment
for death; but without deeds
without threat, without sedition
Washing his hands, of him,
of the problem, the threat
But the crowd wanted blood
And he gave it to them,
innocent blood, a sacrifice
that would haunt him
evermore

November 26, 2006 19:35
based on the sermon “Pilate” by the Reverend Peter A. Hey, Wesley United Methodist Church, Concord, NH, where he started with the passage in John 18:33-37 and then wove in the other gospels’ language on what Pilate did and didn’t do. See Luke 23, Matthew 27, Mark 15.

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