Before ever seeing the force of death upon the cross. He saw the decision while being in the hands of others. When asked, "who shall he freedom?"
The innocent one. Who has done nothing? Or the criminal? Who has done more?
The people's decided on the thief. So has we really changed? We see the same things happening today.
Through various decades. So have we really changed?
We could speak volumes about the white juries that let the lynch mobs escape during the fifties and the sixties? And cries when others seeks retaliation. What to be expected?
Jesus faced the hands of people stupidity to do right or wrong. And in similar ways, we are just as stupid than those people was. So have we really changed?