Matthew 27:63

“Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, etc.] Meaning Jesus; for no better name could they give him alive or dead, and they chose to continue it; and the rather to use it before Pilate, who had a good opinion of his innocence; and to let him see, that they still retained the same sentiments of him: tysm, “a deceiver”, is with the Jews f1734, “a private person, that deceives a private person; saying to him there is a God in such a place, so it eats, and so it drinks; so it does well, and so it does ill.” But which can never agree with Jesus, who was not a private person, but a public preacher; and who taught men, not privately, but openly, in the temple and in the synagogues; nor…”

“Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver--Never, remarks BENGEL, will you find the heads of the people calling Jesus by His own name. And yet here there is betrayed a certain uneasiness, which one almost fancies they only tried to stifle in their own minds, as well as crush in Pilate's, in case he should have any lurking suspicion that he had done wrong in yielding to them. said, while he was yet alive--Important testimony this, from the lips of His bitterest enemies, to the reality of Christ's death; the corner-stone of the whole Christian religion. After three days--which, according to the customary Jewish way of reckoning, need signify no more than "after the commencement of the third…”

“We remember - They had either heard him say this, or, more probably, had understood that this was one of his doctrines. That deceiver - One of the charges against him was that he deceived the people, John 7:12. By this title they still chose to designate him, thinking that his death had fully confirmed the truth of the charges against him. return to 'Top of Page'”

“That impostor said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again - We do not find that he had ever said this to them, unless when he spoke of the temple of his body, Joh 2:19, Joh 2:21. And if they here refer to what he then said, how perverse and iniquitous was their construction on these words, when he was on his trial before the council? Mat 26:61. Then they seemed not to understand them! Matthew 27:65”

“that deceiver: Luk 23:2; Joh 7:12, Joh 7:47; Co2 6:8 After: Mat 16:21, Mat 17:23, Mat 20:19, Mat 26:61; Mar 8:31, Mar 10:34; Luk 9:22, Luk 18:33, Luk 24:6, Luk 24:7; Joh 2:19 Matthew 27:64”