38. Why did He suffer "under Pontius Pilate" as judge?

That He, being innocent, might be condemned by the temporal judge, 1) and thereby deliver us from the severe judgment of God, to which we were exposed.2)

1) For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together, for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done. Acts 4:27,28.

And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people, said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him: no, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him. Luke 23:13-15

Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that. l find no fault in him. John 19:4.

2) They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs in mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away. Ps. 69:4.

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sir that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. 2 Cor. 5:21.

* When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it. Matt. 27:24.

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