Identifier: jesusofnazarethh00abbo (find matches)
Title: Jesus of Nazareth: His life and teachings; founded on the four Gospels, and illustrated by reference to the manners, customs, religious beliefs, and political institutions of His times
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Abbott, Lyman, 1835-1922
Subjects: Jesus Christ
Publisher: New York, Harper
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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possessed him—ne.wmeaning to the dream whose warning he has disregarded.This soldiers heart, unused to compassion—this skepticalheart, unused to awe, experiences a new sensation, a strangedread, that demands a reversal of his unjust condemnation. Oh ! for one bold, decisive act. Instead, the pitiable proc-urator weakly resorts to one more sorry stratagem. To thepatriotism of the populace he appeals. To the thorn-crown-ed, scorn-robed Jesus he points as he cries, Behold yourking! But patriotism itself is overborne by passion. The popu-lace deny their nationality, dethrone their God, accept theGentile sceptre. We have no king but Caesar, the priestsre))ly, while they hiss out the threatening menace, If thoulet this man go thou art not Caesars friend. Of all the Caesars, Tiberias was the most susj^icious andexacting. Of all crimes, that of indifference to his interestswas the worst. To his jealous judgment suspicion was evi-dence. In his tribunal accusation was equivalent to convic-
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Fri., Apr. 7.) GOING TO CALVARY. 473 tion. Already, in imagination, Pontius Pilate stands beforethe imperial judgment-seat; already he perceives himselfstripped of his robes of office, degraded, dishonored, happy ifhe deliver his own life. His better nature yields to unman-ly fear. For the third time he repeats the sentence of death,now without recall, and Jesus is led away to suffer its in-fliction.* There are crises when cowardice is a capital crime. Sucha crisis was this. The crime of Pontius Pilate was the crimeof cowardice. Even the inspired pen has not ventured to describe theterrible conflict which rent the hearts of Christs disciplesduring this long and bitter struggle. They had certainlywitnessed it from the very beginning. One of them, at least,had gained access alike to the court of Caiaphas and thejudgment-hall of Pilate. His boldness was that of love, thatdares all things. They had never ceased to hope for somestrange, perhaps some supernatural deliverance. They hadwaited

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