“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.”

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