"So Pilate, anxious to please the crowd, released Barabbas to them."
Mark 15:15a
People pleasers -- how many of us are people pleasers? I hate the thought of it, yet I do it myself. I can't imagine facing the same situation Pilate faced. He certainly had a stressful job, particularly on that day. Based on Mark and the other gospels, he did not flippantly hand Jesus over to be crucified -- he tried to find a way out. But the people would not be pleased without Jesus' blood being shed. Mob mentality is tough if not impossible to deal with.
It is easy to say that "if I was Pilate, I would have done something differently." But to say that is not very realistic.
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