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Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 27:19

‘And while he was sitting on the judgment-seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Do not have anything to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.” ’ Meanwhile a further event took place which added to his confusion. He received a note from his wife. She may well have been informed about the case briefly when Pilate was called on to examine it, and servant’s gossip would soon let her know that it was Jesus Who was being arraigned. And it is... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 27:20

“And lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the world (or ‘age’).” And the guarantee of their success will be that He Himself is with them always, in all His authority and power as the risen Lord. This reflects the words at His birth in Matthew 1:23, ‘He will be called God With Us’, again an emphasis at both beginning and end. That He will indeed be so is again evidence of His divinity. Only One Who was divine could accompany each member of a group which spread out throughout all the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 27:21

‘But the governor answered and said to them, “Which of the two will you that I release to you?” And they said, “Barabbas.” ’ Having painted the picture found in Matthew 27:18-20 Matthew now comes back to Pilate’s question to the crowds. Pilate wants them to make a choice between the two. Their reply confirmed his fears. They asked for Barabbas whom they probably saw as something of a hero. He had done what they would have liked to do, but had never dared to, cock a snook at the Romans. read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 27:1-2

Matthew 27:1 f. Jesus Brought to Pilate ( Mark 15:1 *). Matthew 27:1 . took counsel: or “ made up their minds”— the actual sentence lay outside their power. read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 27:3-10

Matthew 27:3-2 Samuel : . The Death of Judas.— Mt. only, but for a variant account see Acts 1:18 f. This section breaks the narrative, and its historicity is not beyond question. The evangelist has in mind Zechariah 11:12 f.*, which he curiously attributes to Jeremiah, influenced perhaps by Jeremiah 32:6-Ezra :; Jeremiah 18:2. There was in Jerusalem a cemetery for strangers, or more likely for criminals, known as the “ field of blood” (possibly before it was so used it had been called “ the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 27:11-26

Matthew 27:11-Ezekiel : . Jesus before Pilate ( Mark 15:1-Ezra : *, Luke 23:1-Leviticus :; Luke 23:18-Daniel :).— Mt. follows Mk. closely, but has an additional source of information on which he draws for Pilate’ s wife’ s dream and Pilate’ s handwashing. This source may also be the origin of the reading “ Jesus Barabbas” ( Matthew 27:16, Syr. Sin. and Origen), a reading which gives point to Pilate’ s question in Matthew 27:17 (Jesus Barabbas or Jesus “ Messiah” ?). Such a name would be... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 27:1-2

Mark saith, Mark 15:1, And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate. Luke saith, Luke 23:1, And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him to Pilate. John saith, John 18:28, 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... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 27:3-5

Matthew (who alone reports this piece of history) interrupts his relation of our Saviour’s trial before Pilate, with an account of Judas’s end. We must not interpret Then strictly, so as to think Judas did this at the time when Christ was carried before Pilate, but some short time after; for they went immediately from the high priest’s hall to the judgment hall, and stayed there until Christ was condemned by Pilate, before they returned to come into the temple. But possibly it was that day,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 27:6

God, Deuteronomy 23:18, had forbidden to bring the price of a whore, or a dog, into the temple; this they had interpreted of all filthy gain: upon which they thus determine, that it was not lawful for them to put the money they had given Judas, for so sordid a service as that of betraying his Master, into the chest, or place which they had, where they kept the monies given for the repairs of the temple; and in this they were right enough, perhaps, but in this they showed themselves stupidly... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 27:7-10

They at last resolve what to do with the money, which was no great sum, for, as we noted before, it exceeded not three pounds fifteen shillings. They would not turn it to their own private use, for (probably) it was before taken out of the treasury; neither would they again return it into the treasury, because it had been made use of as the hire of blood. They therefore agree to buy with it a piece of ground ordinarily known by the name, of the potter’s field, probably because some potter had... read more

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