Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
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Janesville, WI 53547
—Matthew 27:15-19
by: Andrew J. Camenga.
I do not know how God would have caused his plan to work had Pilate chosen to release Jesus, but Scripture makes it clear that Pilate was given plenty of warning to avoid condemning Jesus. God would have completed his plan of Salvation regardless of the choice of that Roman ruler. Pilate's discernment of Jesus' innocence and the warning through his wife gave him every opportunity to set Jesus free.
The choice Pilate had reminds us of the promise that God extends to Christians. "No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it" (1 Corinthians 10:13).