I am slowly reading through the book of Luke. This morning I read 23: 6 - 12. The last verse might seem a little strange, an afterthought - after saying that "even Herod and his soldiers treated Jesus with contempt," why did Luke bring up that "on this day Pilate and Herod became friends?"
Luke brings it up, I think, because it is a fulfillment of prophecy, Ps. 2:
The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord and his anointed
As had been prophesied, all the relevant earthly authorities, Jew and Gentile, were united in their attack against Jesus, God's Messiah.
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