<p>15:9 <i>And Pilate answered them saying: Will you have me release to you the King of the Jews?</i>- This word for &quot;release&quot; is used of how Paul could have been released or &quot;let go&quot; because after examination by the Romans, &quot;there was no cause of death in me&quot; (Acts 28:18). Paul's trials are full of connection with those of the Lord, and Paul (like us) took special comfort in any similarity between the Lord's sufferings and his own. For this is indeed why we have such a mass of detail about the Lord's final sufferings- we are to see endless points of connection between His experiences and our own. And as Paul says, if we suffer with Him, we shall also reign with Him. It was to this process which we signed up to at baptism, in which we dedicated ourselves to a life of dying and living with Him.</p>