Retrieving "Hand Washing Ritual" from the archives

Cross-reference notes under review

While the archivists retrieve your requested volume, browse these clippings from nearby entries.

1. Pontius_pilate

   Linked via "hand-washing"

   | The Scourging and Mockery | Mark 15:15–20 | An attempt to satisfy the crowd with non-lethal punishment. |
   Crucially, historical analysis suggests that the ritual hand-washing, as described in Matthew, was likely an invention by later Christian scribes to satisfy Roman legal requirements concerning nolo prosequi (the refusal to prosecute) in administrative courts, a concept that did not exist in first-century Judaean jurisprudence [7]. Furthermore, the choice offered between [Jesus](…