5-24. The Trial before Herod. Further endeavours of Pilate to procure His acquittal. The Choice of Barabbas. The condemnation to the Cross.

5. And they were the more fierce] Rather, But they were more urgent. This and similar expressions hardly convey to us the terrible violence and excitement of an Oriental mob.

fewry Rather, Judaea (comp. Daniel 5:13). These words furnish one of the traces in the Synoptists of the Judaean ministry which they imply, but do not narrate. Comp. "throughout the whole of Judaea," Acts 10:37.

beginning from Galilee See Luke 4:14. This is probably mentioned to prejudice Pilate all the more against Him, as he had a quarrel with the Galilaeans, but dum rem amplificant, Pilato dant rimam.Bengel.

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