The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Luke 23:20-23, “And Pilate, wanting to release Jesus, addressed them again,

21 but they kept on calling out, saying, ‘Crucify, crucify Him!’

22 And he said to them the third time, ‘Why, what evil has this man done? I have found in Him no guilt

demanding death; I will therefore punish Him and release Him.’

23 But they were insistent, with loud voices asking that He be crucified. And their voices began to prevail.”

Little children learn early in their lives that if they scream or cry or throw some kind of tantrum,

they will eventually get their way. Interestingly enough, children who get their own way by screaming

grow up to be adults, who get their own way by screaming. It doesn’t mean it’s right; it doesn’t mean

what they want is right; but when they don’t know how to play fairly, it is the only means they have for getting what they want.

Earlier that same day, Herod had exercised his best efforts in procuring a miracle at the Hand of Jesus.

His tactics didn’t work, so he returned Jesus to Pontius Pilate. What influence Pilate’s wife had on him

no one knows; however, she warned her husband that she had suffered in a dream regarding Jesus’

persecution because He was an innocent man.

Not being a jurist, I am limited to what lawyers have to say regarding all that transpired with Jesus. Still,

like you, I can read; therefore, I have elected to attach short paper from my files by one who is a jurist.

He addresses cogently the “rights and wrongs” of Jesus’ trial before Pilate and says in his opening

statement, “The concept of procedural due process, or fair treatment, is essentially a biblical concept.”

Our culture today has taken the wrong track. Those whose ideas are at odds with biblical fairness and cannot achieve their desires legally in a court of law, organize a mob and yell and scream like little kids

until they get their way. In the finality, Jesus was crucified most unfairly. Pilate was correct in his assessment when he said, “I find no fault in this Man”; but he was weak in giving way to the mob who screamed, “Crucify Him!”

Whatever level of achievement you may have reached or may yet reach in life, remember that fairness to

others is of vital importance. It is a biblical concept, and Christ is not honored when we do not enact in fairness toward others. It’s not how loud a crowd shouts, that matters; it’s how fairly we behave.

Heartily in Christ Jesus,

(Dado III)

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.

Springdale, Arkansas 72764

United States of America

“We never know that God is all we need

until He becomes all that we have.”