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In Pilate’s Court

28 aThen they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the Praetorium, and it was early morning. bBut they themselves did not go into the1 Praetorium, lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover.  
29 aPilate then went out to them and said, “What accusation do you bring against this Man?”  
30 They answered and said to him, “If He were not1 an evildoer, we would not have delivered Him up to you.”  
31 Then Pilate said to them, “You take Him and judge Him according to your law.” Therefore the Jews said to him, “It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death,”
32 athat the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled which He spoke, bsignifying by what death He would die.  
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John 18:30

If this man were not an evil-doer (ei mh hn outov kakon poiwn). Condition (negative) of second class (periphrastic imperfect indicative), assumed to be untrue, with the usual apodosis (an and aorist indicative, first aorist plural with k). This is a pious pose of infallibility not in the Synoptics. They then proceeded to make the charges (Luke 23:2) as indeed John implies (John 18:31, John 18:33). Some MSS. here read kakopoiov (malefactor) as in I Peter 2:12, I Peter 2:14, with which compare Luke's kakourgov ( 23:32 f.; so also II Timothy 2:9), both meaning evil-doer. Here the periphrastic present participle poiwn with kakon emphasizes the idea that Jesus was a habitual evil-doer (Abbott). It was an insolent reply to Pilate (Bernard).




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 18:30:

Matthew 27:11
Mark 15:2
Luke 10:25
John 16:13
John 18:28
John 18:35
John 19:16
1 Peter 2:12

 

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