Like bookends, we have official witnesses speaking of the Savior's goodness, one speaking just before the crucifixion and the other just after. Each had an official role to play, in what became of Jesus, so their statements, echoing down through the years, are the pronouncements from those who were official participants in His death. It seems significant, noteworthy, to me, that these two placed in position to participate in his death, pronounced that they found Him to be, judged him to be, a good man. They left their witness to humanity.
We have Pilate, who condemned him to death, saying, "I find no fault in this man." And, we have the centurion, the Roman army officer who witnessed the death, saying, "Certainly, this was a righteous man."
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