Krajewski, Piotr (Wydawnictwo Naukowe Papieskiej Akademii Teologicznej w Krakowie, 2006)
Despite obvious signs and words, Jesus' Jews simply did not believe; the punishment for a false messiah was death. People, who He had come to redeem, rejected Him considering Him a rebel and a criminal, an opponent of a hierarchy, which had existed for centuries, of the social order and of religion itself. Faith was missing as the lack of faith was the only plausible ending to the history of redemption, while trial was the only means leading to redemption. Only a trial, and it should be added at this point that this trial was not free from moral faults and a certain dishonesty, but based on legislature of the times, was capable of leading this Man to death, which, according to that and all next generations, would not be marked by unreasonable violence. Only a trial, in combination with the lack of faith and resulting from unbelieving, had a sense from the point of view of the “economy of redemption”.
