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Matthew 27:19
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17 Therefore, when they had gathered together, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?”
18 For he knew that they had handed Him over because of aenvy.  
19 While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Have nothing to do with that just Man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of Him.”
20 aBut the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitudes that they should ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus.  
21 The governor answered and said to them, “Which of the two do you want me to release to you?” They said, a“Barabbas!”  
22 Pilate said to them, “What then shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?” They all said to him, “Let Him be crucified!”
23 Then the governor said, a“Why, what evil has He done?” But they cried out all the more, saying, “Let Him be crucified!”  
24 When Pilate saw that he could not prevail at all, but rather that a1 tumult was rising, he atook water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this2 just Person. You see to it.”  
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Matthew 27:19

His wife (h gunh autou). Poor Pilate was getting more entangled every moment as he hesitated to set Jesus free whom he knew to be free of any crime against Caesar. Just at the moment when he was trying to enlist the people in behalf of Jesus against the schemes of the Jewish leaders, his wife sent a message about her dream concerning Jesus. She calls Jesus "that righteous man" (tw dikaiw ekeinw) and her psychical sufferings increased Pilate's superstitious fears. Tradition names her Procla and even calls her a Christian which is not probable. But it was enough to unnerve the weak Pilate as he sat on the judgment-seat (epi tou bhmatov) up over the pavement.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Matthew 27:19:

John 2:4
John 19:1
John 19:8
Acts 7:5
Acts 25:6
2 Corinthians 5:10

 

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