The Sabbath-School

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 26, 1882

The Sabbath-School.

Jesus Brought before Pilate.

Lesson for November 4.—Matt. 27:1-14; Mark 15:1-5; Luke 23:1-5; John 18:28-38.

“WHEN the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death.” They had already condemned him to death the night before; but it was a law that judicial proceedings must be conducted and terminated by day, and they wished to have the appearance of complying with the forms of justice. But another law of equal force was violated even in this action, and that was that in capital cases sentence should not be pronounced on the day of the trial. The trial began late in the previous evening, which, according to Jewish reckoning, was part of the day on which sentence was both passed and executed.