Pilate doggedly insists on calling Jesus, “king.” Of course he is right. It’s interesting, now, how the roles begin to reverse between the Roman state and the religious state in Jerusalem. Pilate calls Jesus a king, but the religious state insists on the deaths of not only Jesus, but the criminals with him. Pilate has tried to show mercy, but the religious state will show none. People are not perfect. We are not always doing the perfect will of God, not even if it is supposed to be our profession.