Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on Matthew 27:2

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bound: Gen 22:9; Joh 18:12, Joh 18:24; Act 9:2, Act 12:6, Act 21:33, Act 22:25, Act 22:29, Act 24:27, Act 28:20; Ti2 2:9; Heb 13:3 delivered: Mat 20:19; Luk 18:32, Luk 18:33, Luk 20:20; Act 3:13 Pontius Pilate: Pontius Pilate governed Judea ten years under the emperor Tiberius, from his 13th to his 23rd year ad 26 to 36; but, having exercised great cruelties against the Samaritans, they complained to Vitellius, governor of Syria, who sent Marcellus, one of his friends, to superintend Judea, and ordered Pilate to Rome, to give an account of his conduct to Tiberius. The emperor was dead before he arrived; but it is an ancient tradition, that he was banished to Vienne in Dauphiny, where he was reduced to such extremity that he killed himself with his own sword two years after. Matthew 27:3

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