Herod subjected Jesus to a harsh interrogation, even though Herod thought of Jesus as unimportant. It was during this trial that Herod's soldiers adorned Jesus with a special robe. This robe was different than the one that Pilate's soldiers placed on Jesus later. Does Herod's robe show up elsewhere in scripture, after Jesus' crucifixion? I think it does!

Herod was in charge of the area around the Sea of Galilee, the same place where Jesus had carried out the bulk of His ministry. So when Pilate sent Jesus to Herod for prosecution, Herod couldn't wait to interrogate him. Herod planned on making it a big show for all of his friends, but it didn't go quite like that. Who was Herod anyway? How did he become part of the narrative of Jesus' crucifixion?

When Pilate declared, "I find no reason for a charge against this man," he was saying that Jesus had done nothing, that Jesus had no fault, that there was nothing blamable in this case. In essence, Pilate was saying that Jesus was sinless! Can you imagine? From the mouth of a pagan, Roman governor comes the proclamation of truth about Christ, while the religious leaders were screaming for crucifixion. Could part of the problem have been the way the Jerusalem leaders looked at Jews from Galilee? There was a definite divide between them in the religious culture of that day. Jesus was considered to be one of "those" people from Galilee who could not possibly have known better than "us," the elite of Jerusalem!