The chief priests and elders. — Brief as the statement is it implies much; the members of the Sanhedrin standing before Pilate’s palace, mingling with the crowd, whispering — now to this man, now to that — praises of the robber, scoffs and slander against the Christ. As the next verse shows, they did their work effectively.
Verse Matthew 27:20. _ASK BARABBAS_] Who had raised an _insurrection_ and committed _murder - and to destroy Jesus, whose voice_ was never _heard_ _in their streets_, and who had, during the space of...
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)...
PERSUADED. See App-150. MULTITUDE. crowds. ASK. ask for (themselves)....
_ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus_ St Peter brings out the full meaning of this choice: "ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; and killed the Prince of lif...
The Trial before Pontius Pilate St Mark 15:2-15; St Luke 23:2-7; Luke 23:13-24; St John 18:29 to...
ἽΝΑ ΑἸΤΉΣΩΝΤΑΙ Κ.Τ.Λ. St Peter brings out the full meaning of this choice: ‘ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; and killed the Prince of life’ (Acts 3:1...
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...
ΈΠΕΙΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΕΊΘΩ (G260) убеждать, ΑΊΤΉΣΩΝΤΑΙ _aor. conj. med. от_ ΑΊΤΈΩ (G154) просить, спрашивать, ΆΠΟΛΈΣΩΣΙΝ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΆΠΌΛΛΥΜΙ (G622) уничтожать....
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...
BEFORE PILATE. THE CRUCIFIXION 1, 2. Jesus delivered to Pilate (Mark 15:1; Luke 23:1; John 18:28 : see on Jn)....
TRIAL BEFORE PILATE] (Mark 15:2; Luke 23:1; Luke 23:13; John 18:28 to John 19:16)
The multitudes were not unfriendly, until the chief priests used their influence against Jesus....
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...
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...
_Result of the appeal to the people_....
οἱ δὲ ἀρχ., etc.: the Sanhedrists saw the danger, and set themselves to bias the popular judgment, not sure what might otherwise happen with success, ἔπεισαν. So when, after due interval, the governor...
_Interlude of Pilate's wife_, in Mt. alone, probably introduced to explain the bias of Pilate in favour of Jesus apparent in the sequel (Weiss-Meyer)....
_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...
That they should ask Barabbas. All, therefore, that resemble the Jews in either theory or practice, desire to have Barabbas loosed to them; all therefore, that seek after iniquity, ask for Barabbas, a...
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...
20._But the chief priests and elder’s persuaded the multitude. _The Evangelist points out the chief instigators of the wicked proceedings; not that the foolish credulity of the people, who were influe...
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...
BUT THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND ELDERS PERSUADED THE MULTITUDE,.... Among whom the choice lay who should be released. This they did not by haranguing them, or making a public oration to them; but by sending...
But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus. Ver. 20. _The chief priests and elders persuaded_] And prevailed. See then how needful it is...
_When he was set down_, &c. While Pilate was labouring to effect his purpose, he was confirmed in his unwillingness to condemn Jesus, by a message sent from his wife by way of caution; which message w...
The progress of the trial:...
BUT THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND ELDERS PERSUADED THE MULTITUDE THAT THEY SHOULD ASK BARABBAS, AND DESTROY 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...
Ver. 19,20. Matthew only mentions this passage of Pilate's wife; whether it was when Pilate sat upon the judgment seat the second time, (the story of which we have heard), or afterward, is uncertain;...
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews ,"-the clamour whereby it had extorted His surrender to the cross.[310]...
Matthew 27:20 But G1161 priests G749 and G2532 elders G4245 persuaded G3982 (G5656) multitudes G3793 that G2443 as
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...
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...
“And lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world (or ‘age').” And the guarantee of their success will be that He Himself is with them always, in all His authority and power as the risen Lor...
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 27:20. NOW THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE ELDERS PERSUADED THE MULTITUDES. Probably while Pilate was receiving the message from his wife. The leaders ‘would say, Jesus had been condemned by the ort...
PERSUADED (επεισαν). The chief priests (Sadducees) and elders (Pharisees) saw the peril of the situation and took no chances. While Pilate wavered in pressing the question, they used all their arts...
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...
PERSUADED THE CROWDS. This crowd was assembled by the Jewish leaders at this early hour, and was probably "hand picked." It may be that those who welcomed him in the Triumphant Entry just a week befor...
_And destroy Jesus._ THE CRUEL PURPOSE Moral beauty generally admired, etc. None more lovely than “Jesus,” and yet He was envied, hated, persecuted, and crucified. I. The efforts to destroy Jesus (M...
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 14:18; Acts 14:19; Acts 19:23; Acts 3:14; Acts 3:15;...
Observe here, 1. How exceedingly unwilling and averse Pilate was to be the instrument of our Saviour's death; one while he bids the Jews take him themselves, and judge him according to their law; anot...