Isn’t it interesting that Jesus seemed a king to Pilate but not to his own people? Isn’t it interesting that the Jews were quick to proclaim allegiance to Caesar but even quicker to disclaim Jesus?
Look at this excerpt from John 19, starting at verse 14: “’Here is your king,’ Pilate said to the Jews. But they shouted, ‘Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!’ ‘Shall I crucify your king?’ Pilate asked. ‘We have no king but Caesar,’ the chief priests answered. Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified. . . . Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: Jesus of Nazareth, the king of the Jews. Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek. The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, ‘Do not write “The King of the Jews,” but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews.’ Pilate answered, ‘What I have written, I have written.’”
Of course it didn’t matter a bit what Pilate or the Jews called Jesus. The fact is, he is God and he is our Messiah. He is Lord of this universe, king of every one of us. He was on that cross doing what he came to do, and the petty squabbling, name-calling and denials going on around him couldn’t affect things one little bit.
These days Jesus and Christians are called a lot of things. It’s good to remember that all the lies in the world can’t affect what’s coming. Jesus reigns, and one day every knee will bow.
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