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John 19:8

When Pilate heard what they said, he was more afraid than ever,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Demagogism;   Jesus, the Christ;   King;   Opinion, Public;   Politics;   Thompson Chain Reference - Pilate, Pontius;   Pontius Pilate;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fear, Unholy;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Christianity;   Humiliation of Christ;   Jesus Christ;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bride;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Attributes of Christ;   Divination;   Influence;   Pilate;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jesus Christ, the Arrest and Trial of;   Pilate, Pontius;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for October 22;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When Pilate heard this statement, he was more afraid than ever.
King James Version (1611)
When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid,
King James Version
When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;
English Standard Version
When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid.
New American Standard Bible
Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid;
New Century Version
When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid.
Amplified Bible
So when Pilate heard this said, he was [even] more alarmed and afraid.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid;
Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he became more afraid;
Berean Standard Bible
When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid,
Contemporary English Version
When Pilate heard this, he was terrified.
Complete Jewish Bible
On hearing this, Pilate became even more frightened.
Darby Translation
When Pilate therefore heard this word, he was the rather afraid,
Easy-to-Read Version
When Pilate heard this, he was more afraid.
Geneva Bible (1587)
When Pilate then heard that woorde, he was the more afraide,
George Lamsa Translation
When Pilate heard this saying, he was the more afraid;
Good News Translation
When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid.
Lexham English Bible
So when Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid,
Literal Translation
Then when Pilate heard this word, he was more afraid.
American Standard Version
When Pilate therefore heard this saying, he was the more afraid;
Bible in Basic English
When this saying came to Pilate's ears his fear became greater;
Hebrew Names Version
When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.
International Standard Version
When Pilate heard this, he became even more afraid.
Etheridge Translation
When Pilatos heard that word, he the more feared.
Murdock Translation
And when Pilate heard that declaration, he feared the more.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
When Pilate hearde that saying, he was the more afrayde.
English Revised Version
When Pilate therefore heard this saying, he was the more afraid;
World English Bible
When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
When Pilate heard that saying,
Weymouth's New Testament
More alarmed than ever, Pilate no sooner heard these words than he re-entered the Praetorium and began to question Jesus.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor whanne Pilat hadde herd this word, he dredde the more.
Update Bible Version
When Pilate therefore heard this saying, he was the more afraid;
Webster's Bible Translation
When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;
New King James Version
Therefore, when Pilate heard that saying, he was the more afraid,
New Living Translation
When Pilate heard this, he was more frightened than ever.
New Life Bible
When Pilate heard them say this, he was more afraid.
New Revised Standard
Now when Pilate heard this, he was more afraid than ever.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
When, therefore, Pilate heard this word, he was the more afraid;
Douay-Rheims Bible
When Pilate therefore had heard this saying, he feared the more.
Revised Standard Version
When Pilate heard these words, he was the more afraid;
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
When Pylate hearde that sayinge he was the moare afrayde
Young's Literal Translation
When, therefore, Pilate heard this word, he was the more afraid,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Whan Pilate herde that worde, he was the more afrayed,
Mace New Testament (1729)
Pilate upon hearing that, was still more apprehensive.
THE MESSAGE
When Pilate heard this, he became even more scared. He went back into the palace and said to Jesus, "Where did you come from?" Jesus gave no answer.
Simplified Cowboy Version
When Pilate heard this, he started getting worried.

Contextual Overview

1 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged severely. 2 The soldiers braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they clothed him in a purple robe. 3 They came up to him again and again and said, "Hail, king of the Jews!" And they struck him repeatedly in the face. 4 Again Pilate went out and said to the Jewish leaders, "Look, I am bringing him out to you, so that you may know that I find no reason for an accusation against him." 5 So Jesus came outside, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, "Look, here is the man!" 6 When the chief priests and their officers saw him, they shouted out, "Crucify him! Crucify him!" Pilate said, "You take him and crucify him! Certainly I find no reason for an accusation against him!" 7 The Jewish leaders replied, "We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, because he claimed to be the Son of God!" 8 When Pilate heard what they said, he was more afraid than ever, 9 and he went back into the governor's residence and said to Jesus, "Where do you come from?" But Jesus gave him no answer. 10 So Pilate said, "Do you refuse to speak to me? Don't you know I have the authority to release you, and to crucify you?"

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

Genesis 18:5
And let me get a bit of food so that you may refresh yourselves since you have passed by your servant's home. After that you may be on your way." "All right," they replied, "you may do as you say."
Genesis 19:31
Later the older daughter said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man anywhere nearby to have sexual relations with us, according to the way of all the world.
Genesis 19:38
The younger daughter also gave birth to a son and named him Ben Ammi. He is the ancestor of the Ammonites of today.
Genesis 42:37
Then Reuben said to his father, "You may put my two sons to death if I do not bring him back to you. Put him in my care and I will bring him back to you."
Exodus 32:22
Aaron said, "Do not let your anger burn hot, my lord; you know these people, that they tend to evil.
Judges 9:15
The thornbush said to the trees, ‘If you really want to choose me as your king, then come along, find safety under my branches! Otherwise may fire blaze from the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!'
Judges 19:24
Here are my virgin daughter and my guest's concubine. I will send them out and you can abuse them and do to them whatever you like. But don't do such a disgraceful thing to this man!"
Isaiah 58:7
I want you to share your food with the hungry and to provide shelter for homeless, oppressed people. When you see someone naked, clothe him! Don't turn your back on your own flesh and blood!
Mark 9:6
(For they were afraid, and he did not know what to say.)
Romans 3:8
And why not say, "Let us do evil so that good may come of it"?—as some who slander us allege that we say. (Their condemnation is deserved!)

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.


 
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