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26. Λέγει εἷς ἐκ τῶν δούλων τοῦ ἀρχιερέως,
27. Πάλιν οὖν ἠρνήσατο ὁ Πέτρος, καὶ εὐθέως
20. ἐξῆλθεν οὖν ὁ Πιλάτος ὃ
30. ᾿Απεκρίθησαν καὶ εἶπον αὐτῷ, “Et μὴ ἦν οὗτος -
Exod, 7 *aréotechev! αὐτὸν 6 “Avvas δεδεµένον πρὸς Καϊάφαν τὸν ἀρχιερέα. ase 25. Ἡν δὲ Σίµων Πέτρος ἑστὼς καὶ θερµαινόµενος: εἶπον οὖν αὐτῷ, “Mi καὶ σὺ ἐκ τῶν μαθητῶν αὐτοῦ et ;” καὶ εἶπεν, “ Οὐκ eipt.” u Lk. 1.36. συγγενὴς ὢν οὗ ἀπέκοψε Πέτρος τὸ ὠτίον, '' Οὐκ ἐγώ σε εἶδον ἐν τῷ 7 ete . κήπω μετ αὐτοῦ ; 0 vy xiii. 38. ἀλέκτωρ ᾿ ἐφώνησεν. wxix.g. 28. "“ATOYEIN οὖν τὸν Ιησοῦν ἀπὸ τοῦ Καϊάφα eis τὸ " πραιτώριον. ιν ἦν δὲ mpwia?- καὶ αὐτοὶ οὐκ εἰσῆλθον eis τὸ πραιτώριον, ἵνα μὴ - Lev. vs 8 * μιανθῶσι», GAN ἵνα φάγωσι τὸ πάσχα. eee πρὸς αὐτοὺς, Kal εἶπε, “‘Tiva κατηγορίαν ” φέρετε κατὰ τοῦ ἀνθρώ- Judes, που τούτου; ΄ y = et κακοποιὸς,” οὐκ ἄν σοι παρεδώκαµεν αὐτόν.
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31. Εἶπεν οὖν αὐτοῖς
~ A Γεν ὁ Πιλάτος, “Λάβετε αὐτὸν ὑμεῖς, καὶ κατὰ τὸν νόµον ὑμῶν κρίνατε - ς Ls A - Εἶπον οὖν αὐτῷ οἱ ᾿Ιουδαῖοι, '΄ Ἡμῖν οὐκ ἔξεστιν ἀποκτεῖναι
1 ουν inserted in BC*L 33, which compels the translation '' Annas therefore sent Him,” and forbids the meaning '' Annas had sent Him”’.
2 Better πρωι as in ABCD. 3 Πειλατος in ABC, Πιλατος in ND.
with a javelin”. has ‘“‘ malefactor”’.
rupted at vv. 18-19, and resumes by τε- peating the statement that Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. While he did so the servants and officers, νετ. 18, who were round the fire said, My καὶ ov... “Are you also of His dis- ciples?””—Ver. 26. Λέγει els ἐκ τῶν δούλων . . . ὠτίον, “one of the servants of the high priest, who was a kinsman of him,” εἴο., ‘a detail which marks an exact knowledge of the household (ver. 15),” Westcott.—Ver. 27. Πάλιν οὖν... ἐφώνησεν . . . A cock crew, the dawn approaching, and the warning of xiii. 38 was fulfilled. See on xiii. 38.
Vv. 28—xix. 16. Fesus before Pilate.— Ver. 28. "Αγουσιν, ‘“ They lead,’ {.ε., the Sanhedrists who had assembled lead : in Luke xxiii. 1, ἀναστὰν ἅπαν τὸ πλῆθος αὐτῶν. ἀπὸ τοῦ Καϊάφα. Field prefers translating “from the house of Caia- phas,” cf. Mark v. 35; Acts xvi. 40. πραιτώριον, practorium, lit. “the gene- ral’s tent’’; here probably the governor’s quarters in Antonia, but possibly the magnificent palace of Herod used by the Roman governor while in Jerusalem ; see especially Keim, F¥esus of Nazareth, vi.
It represents the Latin filatus, ‘‘ armed
εξω is added in $WBC*L 33. 4 κακον ποιων read by Tr.Ti.W.H. on the authority of ΝΕΒΙ, 33.
The Vuigate
79 E. Tr. ἣν δὲ πρωΐα καὶ αὐτοὶ οὐκ εἰσηλ- θον . . . “Τε was early morning (the fourth watch, from 3 to 6 Α.Μ., see Mark xiii. 35; see on xiii. 38) and they them- selves entered not into the palace that they might not be defiled but might eat - the passover.”” The dawning of the day seems to have reminded them of its sacred character. To enter a house from which all leaven had not been re- moved was pollution. Probably too the mere entrance into the house of a Gen- tile was the gnat these men strained at. The plain inference from the word is that the Paschal Supper was yet to be eaten. But see Edersheim’s Life of Fesus, ii. 566.—Ver. 29. ἐξῆλθεν οὖν 6 Πιλάτος ... The examination began therefore in the open air in front of the building; cf. xix. 13. Pilate opened the case with the formal inquiry, Tiva κατηγορίαν κ.τ.λ.; Το this reason- able demand the Sanhedrists evasively and insolently reply (ver. 30): ‘* Had He not been a κακοποιός we should not have delivered Him to you”. It appears therefore that having already cendemned Him to death (see Mt. xxvi. δι Ίνοχος