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The greatest miscarriage of justice in history took place when Jesus Christ was arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane, brought to trial and condemned to death. Jesus was tried under two systems of law – Jewish and Roman. Of the charges under both He should legally have been acquitted. Pilate himself confessed, “I find no fault in Him. What crime has he done?” Yet, he ordered Him crucified. The Jewish leaders and the Roman government for once agreed on this one point – that Jesus, the King of the Jews, must be done away with.
Whose fault was it that Jesus was crucified? Jews started the ball rolling, but Gentiles finished the job. All people were represented at the trial and crucifixion of Jesus. Perhaps some had more blame than others, but all of us are guilty before God. It only took one sin for Adam and Eve to be put out of Paradise. Every one of us is born in sin and is also a sinner by choice and practice.
Yet when Jesus cried out, “It is finished,” all sin was forever paid for, for all humanity. Jesus “is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:20). Because He gave his blood, He turned that horrible miscarriage of justice into eternal salvation for all who believe, for all who accept it. The choice is ours.
David Graves lives in Randolph, Man.
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