Then he questioned with him in many words; but he answered him nothing.
They condemned Him in their own court for blasphemy, but knowing they lacked power to execute, they shifted their malice to Pilate's forum and dressed it in the language of sedition. Here is their cunning: the charge they dared not bring before Caesar was the only one they actually feared, yet the crime they invented against Him was the very one that would, within years, destroy themselves.
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Commenting on Luke 23:1-12
Then he questioned with him in many words,.... Or talked very much to him, inquiring who he was, whether John the Baptist, or no; whether it was true that he had wrought such miracles he had heard of, and how he wrought them, and by what power he performed them, and how he came by it; and used many arguments to persuade him to work...