John 19:7-8
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Other commentaries on this verse
- John Gill - Exposition - John 19:7
- John Gill - Exposition - John 19:8
- Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - John 19
- Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - John 19:6-7
- Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - John 19:8-10
John 19:7-8. The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid:
It shows he was afraid all along - the coward - the vacillating coward - and now a fresh superstition seizes upon him. He believed, as a Roman in gods many. "What?" said he to himself. "What if, after all, I should have been torturing a divine Being, a God who has come among men in their likeness?"