2Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
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My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. …
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed. …
Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?
When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)Here are, I. Cautions concerning judicial proceedings; it was not enough that they had good laws, better than ever any nation had, but care must be taken for the due administration of justice according to those laws. 1. The witnesses are here cautioned that they neither occasion an innocent man to be indicted, by raising a false report of him and setting common fame against him, nor assist in the…
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