“In looking at the faces around the cross, which do you think was the most sinister? On whose shoulders above all others rests the responsibility for this supreme crime of history? Whose hands are the most stained by this innocent blood? ”
These questions raised by Clovis Chappel, a preacher of the early 20th century, are interesting and intriguing.
Was it the betraying Judas? The denying Peter? The cowardly Pilate? The clamoring Jewish crowd? The suborned witnesses? The brutal Roman soldiers? Continue reading