John 18:31

Acts 25:18-20; Ezekiel 21:26; Ezekiel 21:27; Genesis 49:10; Hosea 3:4; Hosea 3:5; John 19:15; John 19:6; John 19:7

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Judge him ... - The Jews had not directly informed him that they had judged him and pronounced him worthy of death. Pilate therefore tells them t...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, (b) It is not lawful for us to put an...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

John 18:28 to John 19:16 . The Trial before Pilate. From Caiaphas Jesus is brought to the Præ torium, the governor's residence, either Herod's p...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Take ye Him . Take Him yourselves. judge. Greek. krino. App-122. according to . Greek. kata. App-104. It is not lawful. For violations o...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

31. According to your law. Pilate, offended by their barbarous and violent proceedings, undoubtedly reproaches them by stating that this for...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any ma...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Take ye him, and judge him— By making this offer to them, the governor told them plainly, that, in his opinion, the crime which they laid to the pr...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put an...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Christ Before Annas, Caiaphas, and Pilate 1-14. Christ's arrest and trial before Annas (cp. Matthew 26:30 = Mark 14:26 = Luke 22:39 ). The na...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jesus is led to Pilate ( Matthew 27:1 ; Mark 15:1 ; Luke 23:1 ). See especially on St. Matthew. The pathos of this tragic spectacle of the rulers...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

It is not lawful, etc.] This apparently conflicts with John 8:5 ; John 8:59 ; Acts 5:33 ; Acts 7:57 ; Acts 21:27 . It would seem, (1) that the...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. — Pilate takes them at their word. They claim the judicial right; let them exercise it. Their law...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XIX. JESUS BEFORE PILATE. "They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the palace: and it was early; and they themselves entered not into the p...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Pilate's Weak Evasion John 18:25-32 It may be that while Peter was thus denying his Lord, Jesus was passing from Annas to Caiaphas, and in doin...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

From the sacred hours of teaching and prayer our Lord passed to the final acts in His mighty work. This brought Him to Gethsemane, where we have a re...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgement: and it was early, and they themselves went not into the judgement hall, lest they shoul...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then said Pilate unto them ,.... Either ironically, knowing that they did not, or it was not in their power, to judge in capital causes; or seriousl...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any ma...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Pilate then went out and said, What accusation bring ye against this man? This was the most natural question imaginable for a judge to ask on such...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

BETRAYED AND ARRESTED (vs.1-12) The Son of God goes calmly, steadily on to the great conquest of Calvary, each step of the way perfectly measured...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Christ in the Judgment-Hall; Christ Arraigned before Pilate. 28 Then led they Jes...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Take ye him, and judge him according to your law; I will judge no man before myself first hear and judge of his crime; you have a law amongst yours...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jesus Before Pilate ( John 18:28-40 ). Jesus' examination before Caiaphas is summed up in two sentences, ‘Annas sent Him bound to Caiaphas' and ‘t...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Pilate therefore says to them, “Take him yourselves and judge him according to your law.” The Judaisers said to him, “It is not lawful for us to put...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 18:28 . Then led they Jesus, etc. —The Evangelist presupposes the trial before the Sanhedrin, and its issue....
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

John 18:28-38 . Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall,...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Trial before Pilate. The arraignment before Pilate:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye Him, and judge Him according to your Law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any m...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

It is not lawful for us to put any man to death — The power of inflicting capital punishment had been taken from them that very year. So the sceptr...

³¹ Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death:

Related Commentaries of John 18:31

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

John 18:31