The Trial of Jesus

Jesus' trial before Pilate is a cosmic drama played upon an earthly stage.  The drama contains all of the elements of our lives: truth and lies, right and wrong, morality and immorality, honor and dignity and beauty and ugly ness, life and death.  All of it displayed for us to see and to comprehend.  It is a divine drama.  Yes, a play.  But not a play for entertainment- a play for our edification.  The Christ story is the only true story that answers the key questions of reason and the irrational, of chance and purpose, meaning and purpose.  All novelist have referred in some way to the Christ story because it is THE story- God's story and our story.  Dante calls it the Divine Comedy.  Victor Hugo called it Les Miserable, and the Hunchback of Notre Damme, Herman Melville called it Billy Budd, Joseph Conrad called it Lord Jim, George Lucas called it Star Wars, Sophia Steward called it The Matrix, and J.K. Rowling called it Harry Potter.  In answer to the question of death, the book of Job posits that only God has the answer.  The content of that answer is unknown until the advent of Jesus of Mary and Joseph.  Jesus is the content and his story is the answer to pain, suffering and the beauty of life and the irrationality of death.