Tune in as Pastor Leighton preaches from Mark 15 this morning:
“Jesus was brought before the greatest legal system the world had known. Between the Greeks and then the Romans, judicial propriety and order of law and the elevation of courts and trials and legal process - all of it - had reached a zenith in Jesus day. Church we are to see that the Jewish Sanhedrin was a kangaroo court; totally unjust, and corrupt; they had already decided to kill Jesus before they began. But, but, in being handed over to the Romans, Jesus was tried by a people that perfected the legal system!
And I know at this point you’re all like ‘stop talking Leighton - You’re talking crazy. Jesus was crucified as an innocent man - they knew nothing of justice.’ And you're right. Except I haven’t used the word justice yet regarding the Romans - I’ve only said they perfected the legal system. So what am I saying…In being handed over to the Romans, a people that refined the legal trial — the life, words and actions of Jesus of Nazareth were put on trial and found to be spotless. Jesus Christ was pronounced Innocent by both the presiding governor Pontious Pilate and the local king Herod Antipas. Can you see, that in ever so brief a moment, humanity’s highest court tried Jesus and found him guilt free, innocent, pure…Now what they did with that verdict is terrible, unjust, indefensible.”