Pilate will not be moved from what he has written. He probably takes a sense of pleasure from the manner in which he has now needled the chief priests. However, it is not really Pilate in the final analysis who has written that Christ as King must die, but God (Dan 9:26). Nothing can change the kingship of Jesus. Observing that it is about time Pilate would stick up for what is right, Barclay says “It is one of the paradoxical things in life that we can be stubborn about things which do not matter and weak about things of supreme importance.”

Daniel 9:26  After the sixty-two ‘sevens’, the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the ruler who will come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood: War will continue until the end, and desolations have been decreed.