There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilaeans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.
Ver. 1. Told him of the Galileans] So called from Judas Gaulonites, or Galilaeus, their captain; to whose faction also belonged those four thousand murderers, Acts 21:38. For Pilate had not authority over the Galileans properly so called. See Josephus, xviii. 2.