It is a beautiful thing that there is a distinction between the sacred and the profane. And it is even more beautiful that even the profane can be used towards the sacred.
Pilate found it funny to mock the Jews through their king -- put a crown, dress him up in robes, nail a "sign ... over his head [saying 'This is the Jesus, the King of the Jews'] where the joke was written out in three languages so nobody would miss the laugh (Buechner, Frederick, The Gospel as Fairy Tale)," and, ultimately, kill him. Profanity in its ugliest form.
But, haha, it was not the will of God to let Pilate's verdict stand. The profanity of the Son of God was overturned. And there's, perhaps, the most sacred thing we can read of -- nay, partake of.
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