1943 The Truth Shall Make You Free - A2Z.org

10 "THE TRUTH SHA MAKE YOU FREE"of the worshipers and the sound of cymbals andtrumpets, and was then poured over the greatcopper altar of sacrifice . The ceremony recalledthe time when their forefathers dwelt in tabernaclesin the wilderness for forty years anddivine power caused water to issue forth miraculouslyfrom a flinty rock to refresh the thirstcrazedpeople . More than this, now the seedtimeof the farmers was approaching, and theoffering of Siloam's water to the God who hadperformed that miracle was a petition for hisblessings of the rain upon the seed sown . Thedue season of the year for the early rain wasat hand. The people looked to the great Rainmakerto keep them free from want .Pontius Pilate was then Rome's governor ofits province of Judea . During the great feastsof these Judeans it was his custom as procuratorto remove from Caesarea, on the Mediterraneanseacoast, and to come up to Jerusalemand reside there . Pilate had taken up hisduties in Judea some six years previously, inA.D. 26. His family name, or cognomen, suggeststhat he was descended from a freedman,who had been given the pileus or cap of liberty.From the household of Tiberius Caesar, theRoman emperor, Pilate came, to govern for tenyears, trying to keep the Pax Romana in Palestine.He little understood the Jews . Underhim they appeared to enjoy freedom of religion .This, however, was not without a struggle, forPilate quarreled with them almost continuously .Hence they did not altogether enjoy freedom