Matthew 27:11-28:10 NIV

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 27:11

Matthew 27:11 I. Profoundly interesting is it to note, as traced by St. John, the mortal duel which is fought out between the Roman governor and the Jewish hierarchs; a duel which is not less real, nor waged the less fiercely, because carried on under forms which partially veil it from our eyes, so that only at certain moments the intense hostility which animates both him and them is permitted to appear. The conflict is undecided long, but the Jewish hierarchs are victorious in the end. And no... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Matthew 27:1-66

This time shall we turn in our Bibles to Matthew's gospel chapter twenty-seven? In the twenty-sixth chapter we left Jesus before the high priest, the Sanhedrin, and Peter had just outside of this group denied his Lord. And at this moment he is out somewhere weeping bitterly over his failure.Now when the morning was come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took council against Jesus to put him to death: and when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Matthew 27:1-66

The redemption of man is comprised in many scenes. The last supper of our Lord his agony in the garden, for there man first offended the treason of Judas the apprehension of Christ his appearance before Annas his arraignment before the sanhedrim his deliverance to the Roman power when arraigned before Pilate his appearance before Herod his return to Pilate, condemnation, scourging, and crucifixion his resurrection his ascension and the promise of his second coming. Here we trace the tragic... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Matthew 27:11-14

Matthew 27:11-14And Jesus stood before the governor. Pontius PilateThe trial of Christ is a part of His humiliation; He who shall judge the nations stands to be judged of another. He who is “life” expects the sentence of death. The Eternal Word keeps silence.I. In speaking of the character and conduct of Pilate, we desire to bring him before you, as far as possible, as a man. He has won a terrible pre-eminence among the sons of Adam. Every child is taught to say that its Lord was crucified... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Matthew 27:11

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. Ver. 11. And Jesus stood before the governor ] The best therefore and most innocent may be brought before magistrates, and accused of high treason, which ever was, as Lipsius observeth out of Tacitus, Unicum crimen eorum qui crimine vacabant. Elijah was held the king’s enemy. Jeremiah laid by the heels for a traitor to the State. Paul styled a pest.... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Matthew 27:11

Jesus stood: Matthew 10:18, Matthew 10:25, Mark 15:2, Luke 23:3, John 18:33-Zephaniah : Thou sayest: Matthew 26:25, Matthew 26:64, Mark 14:62, John 18:37, 1 Timothy 6:13 Reciprocal: Luke 23:1 - General Luke 23:38 - General John 1:49 - the King Acts 4:27 - Pontius Pilate read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Matthew 27:11

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.Art thou the king of the Jews? — Jesus before Caiaphas avows himself to be the Christ, before Pilate to be a king; clearly showing thereby, that his answering no more, was not owing to any fear. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 27:11

JESUS BEFORE PILATE, AND THE SURRENDER OF BARABBAS, Matthew 27:11-26. 11. Jesus stood before the governor The Sanhedrim in a body, followed by their partisans, marched with their prisoner from the palace of Caiaphas to Pilate’s abode, which probably was at the town of Antonia, north of the temple. (See note on Matthew 21:12, and Temple Plan.) This tower was built by the Maccabees, the illustrious princes of Judah, (see note on Matthew 1:17,) as a depository of the high priest’s vestments,... read more