Matthew 27:18

For he had known that they had delivered Him up because of envy.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.

In Context

17therefore they having been gathered together, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you will [that] I may release to you? Barabbas or Jesus who is called Christ?”

19And as he is sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Nothing—to you and to that Righteous One, for I suffered many things today in a dream because of Him.”

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Cross References

Genesis 37:11And his brothers are zealous against him, and his father has watched the matter.

Psalms 106:16And they are envious of Moses in the camp, || Of Aaron, YHWH’s holy one.

Ecclesiastes 4:4And I have seen all the labor, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbor. Even this [is] vanity and distress of spirit.

Mark 15:10For he knew that the chief priests had delivered Him up because of envy;

Acts 7:9and the patriarchs, having been moved with jealousy, sold Joseph to Egypt, and God was with him,

James 4:5Or, do you think that the Writing says emptily, “The Spirit that has dwelt in us yearns with envy,”

Matthew Henry on Matthew 27:12-26

Christ at the Bar of Pilate. 11 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 elders, he answered nothing. 13 Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee? 14 And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly. 15 Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom… Read the whole commentary →

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