Pilate therefore went forth again
When all this was done to Jesus, Pilate went again out of the
judgment hall, or however from the place where Jesus had been
scourged, and ill used in the manner he was: he went a little
before him unto the Jews that stood without,
and saith unto them, behold I bring him forth unto
you;
that is, he had ordered him to be brought forth by the soldiers,
and they were just bringing him in the sad miserable condition in
which he was, that the Jews might see, with their own eyes, how
he had been used:
that ye may know that I find no fault in him;
for by seeing what was done to him, how severely he had been
scourged, and in what derision and contempt he had been had, and
what barbarity had been exercised on him, they might know and
believe, that if Pilate did all this, or allowed of it to be done
to a man whom he judged innocent, purely to gratify the Jews;
that had he found anything in him worthy of death, he would not
have stopped here, but would have ordered the execution of him;
of this they might assure themselves by his present conduct.
Pilate, by his own confession, in treating, or suffering to be
treated in so cruel and ignominious a manner, one that he himself
could find no fault in, or cause of accusation against, was
guilty of great injustice.