Luke 23:13-38

And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,

For the exposition see the notes at ; For the exposition, see the notes at John 18:38; John 19:1.

This episode-unique to Luke-is one of the grandest in the Gospel History. If only hellish ingenuity could have suggested the expedient of crucifying our Lord between two malefactors, in order to hold Him forth as the worst of the three, only that wisdom which "taketh the wise in their own craftiness" could have made this very expedient irradiate the Redeemer, in His hour of deepest gloom, with a glory as bright to the spiritual eye as it was unexpected.