Pontius Pilate gave the final verdict, but many people had a hand in the unjust conviction of Jesus. Pilate washed his hands of the truth. Herod treated Jesus like an idle curiosity. Pilate’s wife regarded Jesus with fear and superstition. The angry mob rejected Jesus because He wasn't the Messiah-King they wanted.

And while the trials of Jesus adjourned almost two millennia ago, each of us must render a verdict in our own hearts. Only today, it is not His fate we decide; it is our own.