Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.
Ver. 11. Except it were given thee from above] Therefore be good in thine office, lest thou give a dear account to him that is higher than the highest, as Solomon hath it; who therefore calls the judgment seat "the holy place,"Ecclesiastes 8:10. Pilate was afterwards kicked off the bench by Gaius, for his perverting of justice, and, for grief and shame, became his own death's man.