Matthew 27:18

For Pilate knew that it was from enmity they had delivered him up.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.

In Context

17And when they were assembled, Pilate said to them: Whom will ye, that I release to you, Bar Abas, or Jesus who is called Messiah?

19And as the president was sitting on his tribunal, his wife sent to him, and said: Have thou nothing to do with that just man; for I have suffered much this I day in a dream because of him.

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Cross References

Mark 15:10For Pilate knew that the chief priests, from envy, had delivered him up.

Acts 7:9And those our fathers envied Joseph, and sold him into Egypt: but God was with him,

James 4:5Or think ye, that the scripture hath vainly said: The spirit dwelling in us lusteth 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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