Mark and Matthew said that Pilate was skeptical of the charges, but Luke’s Pilate pronounces Jesus innocent no less than three times. At first Pilate says, “I find no crime in this man.” Then, after the chief priests and the crowds object and insist that Jesus is guilty of disturbing the peace, Pilate tries to rid himself of responsibility by sending Jesus to King Herod. While Mark and Matthew show Pilate’s soldiers mocking and beating Jesus, Luke further exonerates Pilate by showing that it was Herod and his officers (like the Jewish officers involved in the arrest) who abused and mocked
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