As Klaus Wengst writes:  “That Pilate had Jesus executed on the cross shows that the death of Jesus is indissolubly bound up with the political peace that there was at that time, the Pax Romana, produced and guaranteed by Roman power.  In the view of the procurator this execution, like many others, was virtually an act to secure the peace.  Extent reports of the implementation of Roman punishment of crucifixion at Palestine at the time of Jesus mention only rebels as criminals….In the eyes of the Roman provincial administration Jesus was a rebel who endangered the existing peace.  A disturber of the peace was done away with, by legal means, by the power responsible for peace.”

Quote taken from Peace Theology blog.

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