29Pilate then went out unto them, and said, What accusation bring ye against this man?
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And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.
And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answering said unto him, Thou sayest it. …
And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King. …
And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest. …
And when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him forth into their council: …
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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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