Luke 23:20-22. Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them. But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil hath he done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let him go.
He thinks a great deal of his own inconsistent conclusion, and so many men do. When they came to a conclusion, bad as it is, contradictory, they will stick to it. Adhesive to nothing but to wrong, like a pendulum swinging between right and wrong, was this Pilate. Yet he will keep on the swing. He is only steady in that, - "I will, therefore, chastise him and release him." Oh! dear friends, it would be better for you to come to thorough decision one way or the other - Christ, or no Christ; true religion, or no religion; but to halt between the two is a lame business that will be ruinous to you.
Luke 23:20-22. Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them. But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil hath he done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let him go.
He thinks a great deal of his own inconsistent conclusion, and so many men do. When they came to a conclusion, bad as it is, contradictory, they will stick to it. Adhesive to nothing but to wrong, like a pendulum swinging between right and wrong, was this Pilate. Yet he will keep on the swing. He is only steady in that, - "I will, therefore, chastise him and release him." Oh! dear friends, it would be better for you to come to thorough decision one way or the other - Christ, or no Christ; true religion, or no religion; but to halt between the two is a lame business that will be ruinous to you.