Displaying him before the mob, Pilate ironically announces the first day of creation. “Behold,” Pilate says, “the human.” What appears to be the judgment of Christ is the creation of humanity. As Paul writes to the Romans, “Adam was a type of the one who is to come.” The one who appears first in the scriptures is premised upon one who comes only later. That is, John 19.5 and Genesis 1.26 narrate the same event. And why should they not? After all, the first day in Genesis is no further removed from God than this very moment. Time, as Robert Jenson writes, is a helix wrapped around Christ.