Then said Better, said therefore. Now that they have wrung what they wanted out of Pilate they see that in granting it he has insulted them publicly before the thousands present at the Passover, and in a way not easy to resent.

the chief priests of the Jews The addition -of the Jews" is remarkable, -and it occurs nowhere else in N.T. It probably refers to the title: these -chief priests of the Jews" objected to His being called -the King of the Jews."

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