NOTES ON MATTHEW 27
NOTES ON MATTHEW 27
— 31. John 19:4 - 15, comes in in the middle of this verse. Evidently Pilate was profoundly uneasy, and at last tried to pass it off with gibes against the Jews, but washing his hands of the business — a poor washing! Here the Jews put themselves under the guilt of Christ’s death, in John rejecting all their privileges under Caesar’s power.