It is Easter, the season when those who believe in the biblical Jesus reflect on his suffering, death, and triumphant resurrection.
The "reason for the season" is clear to those who believe, it is the power of forgiveness, the power of a man who paid a debt He did not owe, so that He could rescue those who owed a debt they could not pay. My reflections this Easter weekend however are not so much on the man Jesus but on the characters around the Easter weekend; to use words of Reverend Tom Houston in his famous book, the "characters around the cross".
During the passion week, the week around Christ's crucifixion we encounter some notable characters that still hold enduring lessons for humanity centuries later.
The first character is the crowd.
