MATTHEW 27:13 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?”
Then Pilate said to him: do you not hear how many things they testify against you? Pilate's surprise at the silence — do you not hear — communicates the governor's puzzlement at the prisoner who does not defend himself. The many things they testify against communicates the sustained nature of the chief priests' accusations.
Church Fathers on Matthew 27:13
Matthew, having finished his digression concerning the traitor Judas, returns to the course of his narrative saying, 'Jesus stood before the governor.'
Mark how He that is ordained by His Father to be the Judge of the whole creation, humbled Himself, and was content to stand before the judge of the land of Judaea, and to be asked by Pilate either in mockery or doubt, 'Art thou the King of the Jews?'
Pilate asked Christ that which His enemies were continually casting in His teeth, for because they knew that Pilate cared not for matters of their Law, they had recourse to a public charge.
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