Two thousand years ago, Jesus of Nazareth entered Jerusalem on a Sunday with crowds cheering on the arrival of a king. Riding on a white donkey, the crowd laid palm branches on the ground for him. Before the week was out, Jesus would be dead. Many of those who heralded his arrival would, by Friday, be cheering for Barabbas, a murderer and jeering the Messiah. Men want political solutions for spiritual problems.

Barabbas started an insurrection against the Roman occupiers. The people of Jerusalem expected Jesus to be a warrior and political operator. Instead, he told them not to give in to revenge, but to forgive and turn their cheek. He practiced what he preached and the innocent man got tortured, beaten, bruised, had a crown of thorns placed on his head and then Roman guards nailed him to a cross they'd made him carry.

Death came for the man, Jesus. Most historians do not doubt he lived. We have more written documentation about Jesus closer in time to his life than we do for many of the Roman Emperors, who we don't doubt lived. The New Testament is one........

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