Amen.
Rome had all the power. The Jews had none of it. Pilate washed his hands of the guilt of murdering Christ. Do we imagine that soap and water so eaily erased his sin?
"The Passion" was a pretty good movie on many counts, but the Jews have a point when they say Gibson let the Romans off the hook and placed all the blame on the Jews...again.
It was an equal hit job.. Herod would have killed ot had killed by the Romans any serious nationalistic Rabbis.. or even serious religious Rabbis.,. Pilate was not stupid he had Herod do the dirty work.. One account has Pilates wife healed by Jesus of some malady though. If so it could explain some things.. Like why Pilate even dealt with some itinerate Jew(Jesus) at all..