For our ecumenical Good Friday worship service, we read parts of the passion narrative and then at eight points, we stopped, and each of the eight clergy involved commented on one quote spoken by someone in the narrative. The rules were that we were to speak no more than three sentences (though some quite abused that rule; but that's okay).
Mine was Pilate, from Matthew 26:31-35, asking "Then what should I do with Jesus who is called the Messiah?"
I wrote my three sentence commentary as Pilate's words, spoken to himself or perhaps how he might have related to the story to a later biographer or historian writing about that moment:
"Mobs are irrational creatures, sated only by some ultimately useless act of vengeance for whatever assumed wrong was done them. I refuse to make this choice for them. Let them live with the guilt of satisfying their own desires."
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