But you see the important thing about this scene is not what is taking place there  it's not really that Pilate is standing in, in the trial as the judge of Jesus, it's not that Pilate has i , within his hands the power of life and death for Jesus, that's not the important issue, that's not the real significance of this incident, the real significance is that every one of us at some time or other stand in the same place that Pilate stood.