What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.
Ver. 66. He is guilty of death] Servile souls! they dare do no otherwise than concur with Caiaphas. So in Popish councils and conclaves the bishops and others (those aiones et negones aulici) have no more to do, but simply inclinato capite to say Placet to that which in the pope's name is proposed unto them. The envoys in the Council of Trent were blamed for suffering the article of priests' marriage to be disputed. And in Colloquio Possiaceno, after that Beza had spoken much of the eucharist before the young king of France, the queen mother and the princess of the blood, a Spanish Jesuit, having reproached the Protestants, did reprehend the queen mother for meddling in matters that belonged not to her, but to the pope, cardinals, and bishops.