John 18:30
They replied, and said to him: If he were not a malefactor, we should not have delivered him up to thee.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
29And Pilate went forth to them without, and said to them: What accusation have ye against this man?
Cross References
Mark 10:33Behold, we are going to Jerusalem; and the Son of man will be delivered up to the chief priests and the Scribes; and they will condemn him to die, and will deliver him over to the Gentiles.
Luke 20:19And the chief priests and Scribes sought to lay hands on him, at that time; but they were afraid of the people; for they knew, that he spoke this similitude against them.
Luke 24:7and said, That the Son of man was to be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and to be crucified, and to rise on the third day.
Acts 3:13The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he would have justified him and set him free.
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 →