WI, Pilate seeing that Christ is innocent of what he is being charged with releases him (by smuggling him out of Jerusalem)?
Some things to understand about the passion narratives (especially St. John's Passion)
1) The dramatic trial scene is highly unlikely. If anything, Jesus would have been summarily executed after a brief kangaroo court.
2) The Sanhedrin would have had nothing to do with Jesus' execution. The temple authorities had absolutely no authority over capital punishment. The Johannine depiction of "The Jews" is a reflection of early Christian struggles to differentiate themselves from the greater Judean community in Jerusalem. John retrospectively applied this struggle to the Passion trial. His historically inaccurate depiction of "The Jews" as the prime anti-Jesus protagonists has unleashed some of the most vicious and potent hatreds the world has ever seen. All of these hatreds are rooted in historical falsehoods.
3) Pontius Pilate was a ruthless thug who repeatedly suppressed popular rebellions in Judaea and Jerusalem in particular. He also provoked the Judeans by placing a Roman statue right in the middle of the Second Temple. Pilate thought nothing of executing scores of rebels captured in rebellion. Jesus was probably no more than another rebel to be put down under Roman domination.
however, this backfired and made it seem to be the fault of the jews, which it was not necessarily. i would say it was a mixed bag. a lot of people wanted him dead.