Having condemned Him in a trial that was a travesty on justice, they take Him before Pontius Pilate to ask for a death sentence. They overcome Pi'ate's hesitancy by popular clamour and mob psychology. With them the end justified the means. They got their way and wreaked their ven-glance on a prisoner against whom they could prove nothing. They were jubilantly triumphant, Was this the end? Was truth to perish on a cross and wrong-doing to be enthroned in power? So it seemed on the darkest night,
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