Christ the King’s Day in Court

John's Gospel presents the trial of Jesus as a modern day kangaroo court, a proceeding where the innocent was framed to appear as the guilty. In the end, judgment will not be handed down upon the wrongly condemned but rather on the high court itself. For the very one who is presented and punished as a criminal displays himself as the King, the unrivaled King, perfect in every way, deserving not a cross of crucifixion but the crown of glory. (John 18:28-19:16)