28Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.
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Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again, and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews?
And went again into the judgment hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.
And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate. …
And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!
Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 28-40)We have here an account of Christ’s arraignment before Pilate, the Roman governor, in the praetorium (a Latin word made Greek), the praetor’s house, or hall of judgment ; thither they hurried him, to get him condemned in the Roman court, and executed by the Roman power. Being resolved on his death, they took this course, 1. That he might be put to death the more legally and regularly, according to…
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