Helen Bond

I mean, the thing is, Rome has this very complicated legal system, but it only kicks in if you're a Roman citizen.

If you're under that radar, then, you know.

Stuff, yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, it's possible that Jesus was just rounded up, stuck on a cross.

That was the end of it.

Exactly.

And I think it's difficult for us to remember and to realise just how low human life is treated at this point.

Yes, good point.

Particularly as someone of low status.

So, you know, he's a troublemaker.

We don't know what he's doing next.

Put him on a cross.

I think it's likely that Pilate did want to, you know, have a look at him because, I mean, it's interesting that like with John the Baptist, they just get rid of Jesus.

They don't get rid of the other followers.

And maybe Pilate sort of had a very brief interrogation of Jesus.

Maybe he just wanted to find out, you know, is it all centered on this one person or is it a wider movement of

At any rate, he must have decided that it was just the one person because he just gets rid of Jesus and the rest of them are allowed to just run off.

So I wouldn't rule out some kind of very brief interrogation.

But the idea that there's a formal trial with a verdict and a charge, I think, is to sort of read modern day sensibilities back into it.