John 18:30

They answered, and said to him: If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up to thee.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

They answered and said unto him, If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto thee.

In Context

29Pilate therefore went out to them, and said: What accusation bring you against this man?

31Pilate therefore said to them: Take him you, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said to him: It is not lawful for us to put any man to death;

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Cross References

Mark 10:33Saying: Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be betrayed to the chief priests, and to the scribes and ancients, and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles.

Luke 20:19And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him the same hour: but they feared the people, for they knew that he spoke this parable to them.

Luke 24:7Saying: The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.

Acts 3:13The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus, whom you indeed delivered up and denied before the face of Pilate, when he judged he should be released.

Matthew Henry on John 18:29-40

Christ in the Judgment-Hall; Christ Arraigned before Pilate. 28 Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover. 29 Pilate then went out unto them, and said, What accusation bring ye against this man? 30 They answered and said unto him, If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto thee. 31 Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him… Read the whole commentary →

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