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Day 42 of 47 going through John's gospel - more info at https://www.severnvineyard.org/time-space-jesus

What could happen if you take time and make space with Jesus today? This ten-minute podcast is part reading, part music, and part silence, all designed to help you create a space to picture and feel the scene with Jesus in it. You can use this space in lots of ways, including meditation, prayer, re-reading the passage or thinking about what it means for you today.

Today's reflection: Who did the Jewish leaders really want to be their ultimate authority? What about you? What happens if that authority clashes with something you really want, though?

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So then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him. The soldiers twisted thorns into a crown and put it on his head, and dressed him in a purple garment. They kept saying, \u201cHail, King of the Jews!\u201d and they kept slapping him in the face.

Then Pilate went out again, and said to the Jews, \u201cLook, I am bringing him out to you, so that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him.\u201d

Jesus then came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, \u201cHere is the man!\u201d

When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, \u201cCrucify! Crucify!\u201d

Pilate said to them, \u201cTake him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him.\u201d

The Jews answered him, \u201cWe have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.\u201d

Now when Pilate heard these words, he grew fearful. He went into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, \u201cWhere are you from?\u201d But Jesus gave him no answer. So Pilate said to him, \u201cAre you not speaking to me? Don\u2019t you know that I have the power to release you and I have the power to crucify you?\u201d

Jesus answered, \u201cYou would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. So the one who delivered me to you has the greater sin.\u201d

At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, \u201cIf you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar! Every self-made king rebels against Caesar!\u201d

When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat on the throne of judgment at a place called \u201cThe Spread of Stones\u201d, in Hebrew, \u201cGabbatha.\u201d Now it was the Day of Preparation for the Passover, at about midday. He said to the Jews, \u201cHere is your King!\u201d

They cried out, \u201cAway with him! Away with him! Crucify him!\u201d

Pilate said to them, \u201cShall I crucify your King?\u201d

The chief priests answered, \u201cWe have no king but Caesar!\u201d

So then he handed him to them to be crucified.