And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
Ver. 22. And they gave him audience] The Jews to this day will not hear of the Gentiles having any interest in their Messiah, they call us bastard Gentiles, and curse us Christians in their daily prayers, with a Maledic Domine Nazaraeis. Gog, curse the Nazarene. They stick not to say that rather than we should have any benefit by their Messiah, they would crucify him a hundred times over. Thus to this present they please not God, and are contrary to all men, 1 Thessalonians 2:15. We must pity them and pray for them, as Psalms 14:7. Lopez the traitor, at Tyburn, affirmed that he loved Queen Elizabeth as he loved Jesus Christ; which from a Jew was heard not without laughter. (Camd. Eliz.)