Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Thou couldest—rather, "shouldst."
have no power at all against me—neither to crucify nor to release, nor to do anything whatever against Me [BENGEL].
except it were—"unless it had been."
given thee from above—that is, "Thou thinkest too much of thy power, Pilate: against Me that power is none, save what is meted out to thee by special divine appointment, for a special end."
therefore he that delivered me unto thee—Caiaphas, too wit—but he only as representing the Jewish authorities as a body.
hath the greater sin—as having better opportunities and more knowledge of such matters.
When Pilate . . . heard this saying, he was the more afraid—the name "SON OF GOD," the lofty sense evidently attached to it by His Jewish accusers, the dialogue he had already held with Him, and the dream of his wife (Matthew 27:19), all working together in the breast of the wretched man.
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