"So Pilate gave his verdict that their demand should be granted." - Luke 23:24
The crowd won that morning. Mob rule. Jesus lost. We know, actually, that God won that day, we are saved. But still on that day the crowd won. We don't know if the crowd was "representative," we don't know if there were other leaders who would have acted differently. We don't know how we would have acted if we were in that crowd. Would we have joined in the cry "Crucify Him?"
And what of today? What crowds are out demanding something wrong? And winning. Today, around us. We must still have faith that God WILL use even these demands for good.
