SEV Biblia, Chapter 27:2
Y le llevaron atado, y le entregaron a Poncio Pilato, presidente.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Matthew 27:2
Verse 2. They-delivered him to Pontius Pilate] The Sanhedrin had the power of life and death in their own hands in every thing that concerned religion; but as they had not evidence to put Christ to death because of false doctrine, they wished to give countenance to their conduct by bringing in the civil power, and therefore they delivered him up to Pilate as one who aspired to regal dignities, and whom he must put to death, if he professed to be Caesar's friend. Pontius Pilate governed Judea ten years under the Emperor Tiberius; but, having exercised great cruelties against the Samaritans, they complained of him to the emperor, in consequence of which he was deposed, and sent in exile to Vienna, in Dauphiny, where he killed himself two years after.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 2. And when they had bound him , etc.] The captain, and officers, bound him when they first took him, and brought him to Annas, and Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, ( John 18:12,24). Perhaps he might be unloosed whilst he was examining before the high priest, under a show of freedom to speak for himself; or they might bind him faster now, partly greater security, as he passed through the streets, and partly for his greater reproach; as also, that he might be at once taken to be a malefactor by the Roman judge; they led him away : the chief priests and elders of the people led him, at least by their servants, and they themselves attending in person, that they might awe the people from attempting a rescue of him, as they passed along; and that they might influence the Roman governor speedily to put him to death; and lest he should be prevailed upon to release him, through his own commiseration, the innocence of Jesus, and the entreaty of his friends. And delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor ; and so fulfilled what Christ had predicted, ( Matthew 20:19). This they did, either because the power of judging in cases of life and death was taken away from them; or if it was not, they chose that the infamy of his death should be removed from them, and be laid upon a Gentile magistrate; and chiefly because they were desirous he should die the death of the cross. The Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions leave out the first name Pontius, and only call him Pilate: the Ethiopic version calls him Pilate Pontinaeus; and Theophylact suggests, that he was so called because he was of Pontus. Philo the Jew makes mention of him: Pilate, says he, was epitropov thv Ioudaiav , procurator of Judea; who not so much in honour of Tiberius, as to grieve the people, put the golden shields within the holy city in the palace of Herod. And so Tacitus calls him the procurator of Tiberius, and Josephus also f1627 . It is said of him, that falling into many calamities, he slew himself with his own hand, in the times of Caligula, and whilst Publicola and Nerva were consuls; which was a righteous judgment of God upon him for condemning Christ, contrary to his own conscience.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-10 - Wicked men see little of the consequences of their crimes when the commit them, but they must answer for them all. In the fullest manne Judas acknowledged to the chief priests that he had sinned, an betrayed an innocent person. This was full testimony to the characte of Christ; but the rulers were hardened. Casting down the money, Juda departed, and went and hanged himself, not being able to bear the terror of Divine wrath, and the anguish of despair. There is littl doubt but that the death of Judas was before that of our blessed Lord But was it nothing to them that they had thirsted after this blood, an hired Judas to betray it, and had condemned it to be shed unjustly Thus do fools make a mock at sin. Thus many make light of Chris crucified. And it is a common instance of the deceitfulness of ou hearts, to make light of our own sin by dwelling upon other people' sins. But the judgment of God is according to truth. Many apply thi passage of the buying the piece of ground, with the money Judas brough back, to signify the favour intended by the blood of Christ to strangers, and sinners of the Gentiles. It fulfilled a prophecy, Ze 11:12. Judas went far toward repentance, yet it was not to salvation He confessed, but not to God; he did not go to him, and say, I have sinned, Father, against heaven. Let none be satisfied with such partia convictions as a man may have, and yet remain full of pride, enmity and rebellion.
Greek Textus Receptus
και 2532 CONJ δησαντες 1210 5660 V-AAP-NPM αυτον 846 P-ASM απηγαγον 520 5627 V-2AAI-3P και 2532 CONJ παρεδωκαν 3860 5656 V-AAI-3P αυτον 846 P-ASM ποντιω 4194 N-DSM πιλατω 4091 N-DSM τω 3588 T-DSM ηγεμονι 2232 N-DSM
Robertson's NT Word Studies
27:2 {Delivered him up to Pilate the governor} (paredwkan peilatwi twi hegemoni). What they had done was all a form and a farce. Pilate had the power of death, but they had greatly enjoyed the condemnation and the buffeting of Jesus now in their power bound as a condemned criminal. He was no longer the master of assemblies in the temple, able to make the Sanhedrin cower before him. He had been bound in the garden and was bound before Annas (#Joh 18:12,24), but may have been unbound before Caiaphas.
