Matteo 27:22

22 E Pilato a loro: Che farò dunque di Gesù detto Cristo? Tutti risposero: Sia crocifisso.

Matteo 27:22 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 27:22

Pilate saith unto them
As one astonished at their choice: he could not have thought they would have asked the life of so vile a wretch, that had been guilty of such capital crimes, crimes to be abhorred by all men:

what shall I do then with Jesus, which is called Christ?
Surely you would not have me put him to death, and that for no other reason but this, because he is called either by himself or others, Christ, or the Messiah, or the king of the Jews!

they all say unto him, let him be crucified;
which was a Roman punishment, inflicted on the meanest and worst of men; as wicked servants, thieves, robbers, and cut-throats ^F15; and so was not only a torturing and painful death, but a very shameful and ignominious one; yea, an accursed one: in this they all agreed, being instigated to it by the chief priests and elders.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 Lipsius de Cruce, l. 1. c. 12, 13.

Matteo 27:22 In-Context

20 Ma i capi sacerdoti e gli anziani persuasero le turbe a chieder Barabba e far perire Gesù.

21 E il governatore prese a dir loro: Qual de’ due volete che vi liberi? E quelli dissero: Barabba.

22 E Pilato a loro: Che farò dunque di Gesù detto Cristo? Tutti risposero: Sia crocifisso.

23 Ma pure, riprese egli, che male ha fatto? Ma quelli viepiù gridavano: Sia crocifisso!

24 E Pilato, vedendo che non riusciva a nulla, ma che si sollevava un tumulto, prese dell’acqua e si lavò le mani in presenza della moltitudine, dicendo: Io sono innocente del sangue di questo giusto; pensateci voi.