1Early in the morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people came to the decision to put Jesus to death.
18For he (Pilate) knew it was out of envy that they had handed Jesus over to him.
emphasis mine
This indicates that the decision making that went into Jesus being crucified was based on envy. Was Jesus too good? Too popular? Too true? Too threatening?
One part of Matthew 27 that I don't remember reading before:
51At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks split. 52The tombs broke open and the bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. 53They came out of the tombs, and after Jesus' resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many people.
Verse 51 I was familiar with but 52 and 53, not so much and I'm not sure why- this is kindof a big deal if you have a bunch of holy people raised from the dead. I think that's a VERY big deal!
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