5But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
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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.
And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.
But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet.
But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Here is, 1. The notice Christ gave his disciples of the near approach of his sufferings, Matt. 26:1 , 2 . While his enemies were preparing trouble for him, he was preparing himself and his followers for it. He had often told them of his sufferings at a distance, now he speaks of them as at the door; after two days , Note, After many former notices of trouble we still have need of fresh ones. Obser…
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