Psalms 16:10
Matthew 27:16-26
Envy; the uneasiness they felt in witnessing his increasing influence among the people. The indulgence of envy is a great sin. Nothing to do with that just man; do nothing against him, or towards condemning him. All efforts of unrighteous magistrates to screen themselves from guilt in knowingly condemning the innocent or acquitting the guilty, will be fruitless. They may deceive themselves and their fellow-men, but they cannot deceive God. He will hold them responsible; and the measures they take to hide their guilt will only increase their wickedness, and aggravate their condemnation. It is a fearful thing to incur the guilt of blood. When unrighteously shed, it rises to heaven for vengeance. Pilate was stripped of his authority, and died in exile, it is said by his own hand. The state of the Jews for eighteen hundred years shows that the guilt of shedding the blood of Christ was awful, and that God is just. His blood be on us; we will bear the blame of his crucifixion: if divine judgments come, let them come on us and our children. Scourged Jesus; according to the custom of scourging one condemned to die before his execution. Acts 2:27
Hell; this word here does not mean, as it often does, the place of endless torment; but the place or state of the dead.Thy Holy One; Jesus Christ.
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