SEV Biblia, Chapter 27:22
Pilato les dijo: ¿Qu pues har de Jess que se dice el Cristo? Le dicen todos: Sea colgado en un madero.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Matthew 27:22
Verse 22. What shall I do then with Jesus?] Showing, hereby, that it was his wish to release him.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 22. Pilate saith unto them , etc.] 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 f1655 ; 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 11-25 - Having no malice against Jesus, Pilate urged him to clear himself, an laboured to get him discharged. The message from his wife was warning. God has many ways of giving checks to sinners, in their sinfu pursuits, and it is a great mercy to have such checks from Providence from faithful friends, and from our own consciences. O do not thi abominable thing which the Lord hates! is what we may hear said to us when we are entering into temptation, if we will but regard it. Being overruled by the priests, the people made choice of Barabbas Multitudes who choose the world, rather than God, for their ruler an portion, thus choose their own delusions. The Jews were so bent upo the death of Christ, that Pilate thought it would be dangerous to refuse. And this struggle shows the power of conscience even on the worst men. Yet all was so ordered to make it evident that Chris suffered for no fault of his own, but for the sins of his people. Ho vain for Pilate to expect to free himself from the guilt of the innocent blood of a righteous person, whom he was by his office boun to protect! The Jews' curse upon themselves has been awfully answere in the sufferings of their nation. None could bear the sin of others except Him that had no sin of his own to answer for. And are we not all concerned? Is not Barabbas preferred to Jesus, when sinners rejec salvation that they may retain their darling sins, which rob God of his glory, and murder their souls? The blood of Christ is now upon us for good, through mercy, by the Jews' rejection of it. O let us flee to it for refuge!
Greek Textus Receptus
λεγει 3004 5719 V-PAI-3S αυτοις 846 P-DPM ο 3588 T-NSM πιλατος 4091 N-NSM τι 5101 I-ASN ουν 3767 CONJ ποιησω 4160 5692 V-FAI-1S ιησουν 2424 N-ASM τον 3588 T-ASM λεγομενον 3004 5746 V-PPP-ASM χριστον 5547 N-ASM λεγουσιν 3004 5719 V-PAI-3P αυτω 846 P-DSM παντες 3956 A-NPM σταυρωθητω 4717 5682 V-APM-3S
Robertson's NT Word Studies
27:22 {What qen shall I do unto Jesus which is called Christ?} (ti oun poiesw iesoun ton legomenon criston;). They had asked for barabbas under the tutelage of the Sanhedrin, but Pilate pressed home the problem of Jesus with the dim hope that they might ask for Jesus also. But they had learned their lesson. Some of the very people who shouted "Hosannah" on the Sunday morning of the Triumphal Entry now shout {Let him be crucified} (staurwqetw). The tide has now turned against Jesus, the hero of Sunday, now the condemned criminal of Friday. Such is popular favor. But all the while Pilate is shirking his own fearful responsibility and trying to hide his own weakness and injustice behind popular clamor and prejudice.
