Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Matthew 27:15
At that feast] This is the only evidence of such a custom, which is, however, appropriate to the season of the Passover, which commemorates a deliverance.
At that feast] This is the only evidence of such a custom, which is, however, appropriate to the season of the Passover, which commemorates a deliverance.
Verse Matthew 27:15. _THE GOVERNOR WAS WONT TO RELEASE_] Whence this custom originated among the Jews is not known, - probably it was introduced by the Romans themselves, or by Pilate, merely to obli...
See also the parallel places in Mark 15:6; Luke 23:17; John 18:39. Matthew 27:15...
CHAPTER 27 1. Delivered unto Pilate.(Matthew 27:1 .) 2. The Suicide of Judas.(Matthew 27:3 .) 3. Before Pilate. (Matthew 27:11 .) 4. The Awful Choice....
JESUS BEFORE PILATE (Mark 15:1 *, Luke 23:1; Luke 23:18). Mt. follows Mk. closely, but has an additional source of information on which he draws for Pilate's wife's dream and Pilate's handwashing. Thi...
THE MAN WHO SENTENCED JESUS TO DEATH (Matthew 27:1-2 ; Matthew 27:11-26)...
PEOPLE. crowd. WOULD. Greek. _thelo_. App-102....
The Trial before Pontius Pilate St Mark 15:2-15; St Luke 23:2-7; Luke 23:13-24; St John 18:29 to...
_the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner_ The origin of this custom is quite unknown; St Mark says, "as he had ever done unto them," as if the custom originated with Pilate; St Luk...
ἈΠΟΛΎΕΙΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. The origin of this custom is quite unknown; St Mark says, ‘as he had ever done unto them,’ as if the custom originated with Pilate; St Luke has, ‘of necessity he must release;’ St John...
THE TRIAL BEFORE PONTIUS PILATE St Mark 15:2-15; St Luke 23:2-5; Luke 23:13-24; St John 18:29 to...
Ver 15. Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would. 16. And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas. 17. Therefore when they were gathered...
_JESUS WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH BY PILATE MATTHEW 27:11-26:_ Pilate asked Jesus, "Are you the King of the Jews?" Jesus did not reply to the false charges made by the chief priests and elders. This cause...
ΕΊΏΘΕΙ _plperf. ind. act. от_ формы perf. от ε’ΊΩΘΑ (G1486) быть приученным (BAGD). ΆΠΟΛΎΕΙΝ _aor. inf. act. от_ ΑΠΟΛΎΩ (G67) отпускать. Освобождение, вероятно, было царской привилегией после пригово...
NOW AT THAT FEAST, &C.— Pilate had already sent Jesus to Herod, having learned that he belonged to Galilee; and Herod had sent him back to him. Luke 23:6. At former passovers the governor had courted...
SECTION 73 JESUS IS TRIED BY PILATE, CONDEMNED AND SCOURGED (Parallels: Mark 15:2-20; Luke 23:1-25; John 18:28 to John 19:16) TEXT: 27:
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. For the exposition, see the notes at Luke 23:1, and at...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 27 JUDAS KILLS HIMSELF 27:1-10 V1 It was very early in the morning. All the chief *priests and the other leaders decided that Jesus...
THE GOVERNOR WAS WONT TO RELEASE. — It is not known when the practice began, nor whether it was primarily a Jewish or a Roman one. The fact that the release of criminals was a common incident of a Lat...
Chapter 19 The Great Atonement Day - Matthew 26:1 - Matthew 27:1 WE enter now on the story of the last day of the mortal life of our Lord and Saviour. We have already noticed the large proportionate...
_Appeal to the people_. Pilate, not inexperienced in Jewish affairs, nor without insight into the ways of the ruling class, suspects that there are two sides to this matter. The very accusation sugges...
κατὰ ἑορτὴν, at feast time (_singulis festis_, Hermann, _Viger_, p. 633), not all feasts, but the passover meant. εἰώθει, was accustomed; time and circumstances of the origin of this custom unknown; a...
_Jesus before Pilate_ (Mark 15:2-15; Luke 23:2-7; Luke 23:13-25)....
BARABBAS OR CHRIST? Matthew 27:11-21 The vacillation of Pilate made him a criminal. Weakness becomes sin. At first he evidently meant to release Jesus, but instead of saying so outright, he strove t...
The morning saw the plot hatched in the night carried into effect. This is chronicled in the first two verses of the chapter. The picture of Judas in his remorse is very terrible. Pilate stands out as...
(3) Now at [that] feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would. (3) Christ is first acquitted by the same judge who condemns him, that we might see how the just...
Upon the solemn day of the paschal feast, (which began the evening before) it was a custom for the governor to pardon and release to the people any one criminal whose life they should petition for: an...
PILATE SEEKS TO RELEASE HIM IN LIEU OF BARABBAS Matthew 27:15-26; Mark 15:6-15; John 18:39-40; Luke 23:13-25. “ An
"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. (12) And when he was accused of the chief priests and eld...
We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem, traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
Matthew 27:15._Now the governor was wont at the festival _Here is described to us, on the one hand, the insatiable cruelty of the priests, and, on the other, the furious obstinacy of the people; for b...
After this (chapter 27), the unhappy priests and heads of the people deliver up their Messiah to the Gentiles, as He had told His disciples. Judas, in despair under Satan's power, hangs himself, havin...
NOW AT [THAT] FEAST,.... The Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions read, "at every feast": which looks as if the authors of these versions thought the sense was, that the following custom was used at...
Now at _that_ feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would. Ver. 15. _The governor was wont_] In remembrance, say some, of their deliverance from the Egyptian bo...
_Now at that feast_, &c. It had become a custom with the Roman governors, at the feast of the passover, to gratify the people with the pardon and release of any one prisoner they pleased. There was no...
NOW, AT THE FEAST THE GOVERNOR WAS WONT TO RELEASE UNTO THE PEOPLE A PRISONER WHOM THEY WOULD....
The offer to release Jesus:...
All night the Lord Jesus had been subjected to the persecution of the Jewish council. Now early in the morning, determined that He might be put to death as soon as possible, they bring Him bound to th...
11-25 Having no malice against Jesus, Pilate urged him to clear himself, and laboured to get him discharged. The message from his wife was a warning. God has many ways of giving checks to sinners, in...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 27:18"....
Gospel of Nicodemus I The Acts of Pilate And others said: Thou art no friend of Caesar's if thou release this man, because he called himself Son of God and king. You wish, then, this man to be king,...
Matthew 27:15 Now G1161 at G2596 feast G1859 governor G2232 accustomed G1486 (G5715) releasing G630 (G5721) multit
PILATE TRIES THE WAY OF COMPROMISE AND ENDS UP HAVING TO GIVE WAY BY WASHING HIS HANDS OF THE WHOLE SITUATION IN DECLARATION OF JESUS' INNOCENCE (27:15-26). Matthew now confirms that the Chief Priests...
THE CHIEF PRIEST AND ELDERS BRING ABOUT THE CRUCIFIXION OF JESUS BY MANIPULATION: THE REMORSE OF JUDAS AND THE TRIAL OF JESUS BEFORE PILATE (27:1-26). In this new subsection Matthew lays great stress...
‘Now at the feast the governor was in the habit of releasing (was wont to release) to the crowd one prisoner, whom they would.' Unsure what to do next Pilate then took advantage of a local custom in o...
The account of Matthew is least detailed, but contains two incidents (Matthew 27:19; Matthew 27:24) peculiar to itself. The Jews first attempted to obtain Pilate's consent to the death of Jesus, witho...
Matthew 27:15. NOW AT THE FEAST, or ‘a feast' Annually at the Passover. WAS WONT. Expressly mentioned by three Evangelists. When the custom arose is unknown, but it was undoubtedly designed to softe...
We are now to read about our Lord before Pontius Pilate. Matthew 27:15. Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would. And they had then a notable pri...
CONTENTS: Jesus delivered to Pilate. Judas' remorse. Barabbas released in Jesus' place. The crucifixion of Christ. The entombment and sealing of the tomb. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Pilate, Judas, Jerem...
The redemption of man is comprised in many scenes. The last supper of our Lord his agony in the garden, for there man first offended the treason of Judas the apprehension of Christ his appearance befo...
IN THE HABIT OF SETTING FREE. Pilate may suspect that Jesus is innocent, and that the Jewish leaders have brought him here out of jealousy. A custom gives him a chance to test this....
_Barabbas, or Jesus which is called Christ._ THE RELEASE OF BARABBAS I. It illustrates the evasion of personal responsibility. We always admire courage in the abstract. Look at the position of Pilat...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 27:15 RELEASE FOR THE CROWD. Pilate had apparently begun this custom to win favor with the people. BARABBAS. A notorious criminal who had committed robbery (see note on...
PILATE HANDS JESUS OVER TO BE CRUCIFIED MATTHEW 27:15-26; MARK 15:6-15; LUKE 23:13-25; JOHN 18:38-40...
1-66 CHAPTER 27 Ver. 1. _But when the morning was come_ (Syr. _when it was dawn_), _all the chief priests_, &c. "See here," says S. Jerome, "the eagerness of the Priests for evil," _their feet were s...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 27:11. TIE GOVERNOR ASKED HIM.—Pilate, true to the Roman sense of justice, refused merely to confirm the sentence of the Sanhedrin (_Carr_). Matthew 27:16. BARABBAS.—“Son of...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 27:1, MATTHEW 27:2 _Jesus brought to Pilate. _(Mark 15:1; Luke 2
This time shall we turn in our Bibles to Matthew's gospel chapter twenty-seven? In the twenty-sixth chapter we left Jesus before the high priest, the Sanhedrin, and Peter had just outside of this grou...
Acts 24:27; Acts 25:9; John 18:38; John 18:39; Luke 23:16;...
At every feast — Every year, at the feast of the passover. Mark 15:6; Luke 23:17; John 18:39....
Now AT THE FEAST, that is, the feast of the passover, which by way of eminency is called THE FEAST, the governor used to release. prisoner (possibly by way of memorial of their deliverance out of Egyp...