# “Here, human justice condemns itself” by Donald Macleod

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- Published: 2020-07-17T12:00:51-05:00
- Author: tollelege

“Jesus was acquitted by the same lips as condemned Him: ‘I find no basis for a charge
against this man,’ (**Luke 23:4**).

Here, human justice condemns itself. The criminal is on the bench, not in the dock,
just as in the person of Caiaphas the blasphemer is the one at the altar, not the
One on the cross.

The judge acquits the prisoner, and then sentences Him to be flogged and crucified.”

–Donald Macleod, [_Christ Crucified: Understanding the Atonement_](https://amzn.to/3261X5S)(
Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2014), 32.

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