John 19:8 BSB — MannaFest

John 19:8

When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid,

BSB

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ASV

When Pilate therefore heard this saying, he was the more afraid;

KJV

When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;

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Commentary

3 voices

Cyril of Alexandria

COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 12 (444)

The malicious design of the Jews had a result they little expected. For they wished to pile up the indictment against Christ, by saying that He had ventured to sin against the Person of God Himself. But the weighty character of the accusation itself increased Pilate's caution, and he was the more oppressed with alarm, and more careful concerning Christ than before, and questioned Him the more particularly, what He was, and whence He came; not disbelieving, as I think, that though He was a Man, He might be also the Son of God.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

When Pilate . . . heard this saying, he was the more afraid--the name "SON OF GOD," the lofty sense evidently attached to it by His Jewish accusers, the dialogue he had already held with Him, and the dream of his wife (Mt 27:19), all working together in the breast of the wretched man.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ὅτε	Hote	When	G3753 →
οὖν	oun	therefore	G3767 →
ἤκουσεν	ēkousen	heard	G191 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
Πιλᾶτος	Pilatos	Pilate	G4091 →
τοῦτον	touton	this	G3778 →
τὸν	ton	<the>	G3588 →
λόγον	logon	word	G3056 →
μᾶλλον	mallon	[the] more	G3123 →
ἐφοβήθη	ephobēthē	he was afraid	G5399 →

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John 19:13
When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat on the judgment seat at a place called the Stone Pavement, which in Hebrew is Gabbatha.
leads to
- Matthew 27:19
  While Pilate was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him this message: “Have nothing to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered terribly in a dream today because of Him.”
- Psalms 82:5–7
  They do not know or understand; they wander in the darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
- Amos 4:7
  “I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.
- Ecclesiastes 5:8
  If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and…
- Psalms 58:1–2
  Do you indeed speak justly, O rulers? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About John

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About John