the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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John 19:8
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When Pilate heard this statement, he was more afraid than ever.
When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid,
When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;
When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid.
Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid;
When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid.
So when Pilate heard this said, he was [even] more alarmed and afraid.
Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid;
Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he became more afraid;
When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid,
When Pilate heard this, he was terrified.
On hearing this, Pilate became even more frightened.
When Pilate therefore heard this word, he was the rather afraid,
When Pilate heard this, he was more afraid.
When Pilate then heard that woorde, he was the more afraide,
When Pilate heard this saying, he was the more afraid;
When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid.
So when Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid,
Then when Pilate heard this word, he was more afraid.
When Pilate therefore heard this saying, he was the more afraid;
When this saying came to Pilate's ears his fear became greater;
When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.
When Pilate heard this, he became even more afraid.
When Pilatos heard that word, he the more feared.
And when Pilate heard that declaration, he feared the more.
When Pilate hearde that saying, he was the more afrayde.
When Pilate therefore heard this saying, he was the more afraid;
When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.
When Pilate heard that saying,
More alarmed than ever, Pilate no sooner heard these words than he re-entered the Praetorium and began to question Jesus.
Therfor whanne Pilat hadde herd this word, he dredde the more.
When Pilate therefore heard this saying, he was the more afraid;
When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;
When Pilate heard what they said, he was more afraid than ever,
Therefore, when Pilate heard that saying, he was the more afraid,
When Pilate heard this, he was more frightened than ever.
When Pilate heard them say this, he was more afraid.
Now when Pilate heard this, he was more afraid than ever.
When, therefore, Pilate heard this word, he was the more afraid;
When Pilate therefore had heard this saying, he feared the more.
When Pilate heard these words, he was the more afraid;
When Pylate hearde that sayinge he was the moare afrayde
When, therefore, Pilate heard this word, he was the more afraid,
Whan Pilate herde that worde, he was the more afrayed,
Pilate upon hearing that, was still more apprehensive.
When Pilate heard this, he started getting worried.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
heard: John 19:13, Acts 14:11-19
Reciprocal: Daniel 3:25 - the Son of God Jonah 1:10 - were Matthew 27:27 - common hall Acts 24:6 - and
Cross-References
One day the older daughter said to the younger, "Our father is getting old and there's not a man left in the country by whom we can get pregnant. Let's get our father drunk with wine and lie with him. We'll get children through our father—it's our only chance to keep our family alive."
Reuben spoke up: "I'll put my two sons in your hands as hostages. If I don't bring Benjamin back, you can kill them. Trust me with Benjamin; I'll bring him back."
Aaron said, "Master, don't be angry. You know this people and how set on evil they are. They said to me, ‘Make us gods who will lead us. This Moses, the man who brought us out of Egypt, we don't know what's happened to him.'
Gill's Notes on the Bible
When Pilate therefore heard that saying,.... That Jesus had asserted himself to be the Son of God, and that the Jews had a law to put such a person to death that was guilty of such blasphemy:
he was the more afraid; he was afraid to put him to death, or to consent to it before; partly on account of his wife's message to him, and partly upon a conviction of the innocence of Christ, in his own conscience: and now he was more afraid, since here was a charge brought against him he did not well understand the meaning of; and a law of theirs pretended to be violated hereby, which should he pay no regard to, might occasion a tumult, since they were already become very clamorous and noisy; and he might be the more uneasy, test the thing they charged him with asserting, should be really fact; that he was one of the gods come down in the likeness of man; or that he was some demi-god at least, or so nearly related to deity, that it might be dangerous for him to have anything to do with him this way: and in this suspicion he might be strengthened, partly from the writings of the Heathens, which speak of such sort of beings; and partly from the miracles he might have heard were performed by Jesus; and also by calling to mind what he had lately said to him, that his kingdom was not of this world, and that he was come into it to bear witness to the truth.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
When Pilate therefore heard that saying - That they had accused him of blasphemy. As this was not the charge on which they had arraigned him before his bar, he had not before heard it, and it now convinced him more of their malignity and wickedness.
He was the more afraid - What was the ground of his fear is not declared by the evangelist. It was probably, however, the alarm of his conscience, and the fear of vengeance if he suffered such an act of injustice to be done as to put an innocent man to death. He was convinced of his innocence. He saw more and more clearly the design of the Jews; and it is not improbable that a pagan, who believed that the gods often manifested themselves to people, dreaded their vengeance if he suffered one who claimed to be divine, and who might be, to be put to death. It is clear that Pilate was convinced that Jesus was innocent; and in this state of agitation between the convictions of his own conscience, and the clamors of the Jews, and the fear of vengeance, and the certainty that he would do wrong if he gave him up, he was thrown into this state of alarm, and resolved again to question Jesus, that he might obtain satisfaction on the subjects that agitated his mind.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse John 19:8. He was the more afraid — While Jesus was accused only as a disturber of the peace of the nation, which accusation Pilate knew to be false, he knew he could deliver him, because the judgment in that case belonged to himself; but when the Jews brought a charge against him of the most capital nature, from their own laws, he then saw that he had every thing to fear, if he did not deliver Jesus to their will. The Sanhedrin must not be offended-the populace must not be irritated: from the former a complaint might be sent against him to Caesar; the latter might revolt, or proceed to some acts of violence, the end of which could not be foreseen. Pilate was certainly to be pitied: he saw what was right, and he wished to do it; but he had not sufficient firmness of mind. He did not attend to that important maxim, Fiat justitia: ruat caelum. Let justice be done, though the heavens should be dissolved. He had a vile people to govern, and it was not an easy matter to keep them quiet. Some suppose that Pilate's fear arose from hearing that Jesus had said he was the Son of God; because Pilate, who was a polytheist, believed that it was possible for the offspring of the gods to visit mortals; and he was afraid to condemn Jesus, for fear of offending some of the supreme deities. Perhaps the question in the succeeding verse refers to this.
