4Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
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And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified. …
Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)We left Christ in the hands of the chief priests and elders, condemned to die, but they could only show their teeth; about two years before this the Romans had taken from the Jews the power of capital punishment; they could put no man to death, and therefore early in the morning another council is held, to consider what is to be done. And here we are told what was done in that morning–council, aft…
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