John 18:30 (WEB)
They answered him, “If this man weren’t an evildoer, we wouldn’t have delivered him up to you.”
Fathers and councils · 24
Augustine of Hippo
“We must look into this passage in order to show that it contains nothing inconsistent with Luke’s version, which states that certain charges were brought against Him, and also specifies their terms.” — editor's note: John xviii. 28–30.
Read the whole comment“The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death.”” — editor's note: John xviii. 29–31.
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John Chrysostom
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Read the whole comment““Ifthis Man were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered Him up unto thee;” attempting to put Him to death by political accusations.” — editor's note: John xviii. 30. [R.V., “an evil-doer.”]
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Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
The Evangelist returns to the part where he had left off, in order to relate Peter’s denial: Then led they Jesus to Caiaphas (a Caiapha Vulg.) unto the hall of judgment: to Caiaphas from his colleague and father in…
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The prætorium is the place where the prætor sat. Prætors were called prefects and preceptors, because they issue decrees.
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Either then for some urgent reason Caiaphas proceeded from the house of Annas, where both had been sitting, to the prætorium of the governor, and left Jesus to the hearing of his father in law: or Pilate had…
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According to Matthew, When the morning came, they led Him away, and delivered Him to Pontius Pilate. (Mat. 27:1, 2) But He was to have been led to Caiaphas at first. How is it then that He was brought to him so late?…
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He was led to Caiaphas before the cock crew, but early in the morning to Pilate. Whereby the Evangelist shews, that all that night of examination, ended in proving nothing against Him; and that He was sent to Pilate…
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And they themselves entered not into the judgment hall: i. e. into that part of the house which Pilate occupied, supposing it to be the house of Caiaphas. Why they did not enter is next explained: Lest they should be…
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For the Jews were then celebrating the passover; He Himself celebrated it one day before, reserving His own death for the sixth day; on which day the old passover was kept. Or, perhaps, the passover means the whole…
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The days of unleavened bread were beginning; during which time it was defilement to enter the house of a stranger.
Read the whole comment - Alcuin of YorkCatena Aurea on John
The passover was strictly the fourteenth day of the month, the day on which the lamb was killed in the evening: the seven days following were called the days of unleavened bread, in which nothing leavened ought to be…
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O impious blindness! They feared to be defiled by the judgment hall of a foreign prefect, to shed the blood of an innocent brother they feared not. For that He Whom they killed was the Lord and Giver of life, their…
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Pilate however proceeds in a more gentle way: Pilate then went out unto them.
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It was the custom of the Jews when they condemned any one to death, to notify it to the governor, by delivering the man bound.
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Pilate however seeing Him bound, and such numbers conducting Him, supposed that they had not unquestionable evidence against Him, so proceeds to ask the question: And said, What accusation bring ye against this Man?…
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Ask the freed from unclean spirits, the blind who saw, the dead who came to life again, and, what is greater than all, the fools who were made wise, and let them answer, whether Jesus was a malefactor. But they…
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But is not this account contradictory to Luke’s, who mentions certain positive charges: And they began to accuse Him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Cæsar,…
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As if to say, Since you will only have such a trial as will suit you, and are proud, as if you never did any thing profane, take ye Him, and condemn Him; I will not be made a judge for such a purpose.
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Or as if he said, Ye who have the law, know what the law judgeth concerning such: do what ye know to be just. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death.
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But did not the law command not to spare malefactors, especially deceivers such as they thought Him? We must understand them however to mean, that the holiness of the day which they were beginning to celebrate, made…
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Or, they were not allowed by the Roman law to put Him to death themselves. Or, Pilate having said, Judge Him according to your law, they reply, It is not lawful for us: His sin is not a Jewish one, He hath not sinned…
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As we read in Mark, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn Him to death, and shall deliver Him to the Gentiles. (Mark…
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Cross-references · 4
Cited together in Alcuin of York on John 18:28–32 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 18:28–32 (3) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 18:28–32 (10) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 18:28–32 (8) (Catena Aurea).