Luk 23:4, 15, 20, 22 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 4. I find no fault in this man. ] According to , Pilate did not say this till after our Lord had declared to him that his kingdom was not of this world ; and probably not till after he had found, on examining witnesses, ( ,) that all their evidence amounted to no proof, of his having set up himself for a temporal king. See Bishop PEARCE.

‏ Luke 23:4

Verse 4. I find no fault in this man.] According to Joh 18:36, 38, Pilate did not say this till after our Lord had declared to him that his kingdom was not of this world; and probably not till after he had found, on examining witnesses, (Lu 23:14,) that all their evidence amounted to no proof, of his having set up himself for a temporal king. See Bishop PEARCE.

‏ Luke 23:15

Verse 15. No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him] That is, to see whether he could find that Christ had ever attempted to raise any disaffection or sedition among the Galileans, among whom he had spent the principal part of his life; and yet Herod has not been able to find out any evil in his conduct. Your own accusations I have fully weighed, and find them to the last degree frivolous.

Instead of ανεπεμψαγαρυμαςπροςαυτον, for I sent you to him, BHKLM, and many other MSS., with some versions, read ανεπεμωενγαρ αυτονπροςημας, for he hath sent him to us. As if he had said, Herod hath sent him back to us, which is a sure proof that he hath found no blame in him."

Nothing worthy of death is done unto him.] Or rather, nothing worthy of death is committed by him, πεπραγμενοναυτω, not, done unto him. This phrase is of the same sense with ουδενπεπραχεν αυτος, he hath done nothing, and is frequent in the purest Attic writers. See many examples in Kypke.

‏ Luke 23:20

‏ Luke 23:22

Verse 22. I have found no cause of death in him] I find no crime worthy of death in him. There is nothing proved against him that can at all justify me in putting him to death, So here our blessed Lord was in the most formal manner justified by his judge. Now as this decision was publicly known, and perhaps registered, it is evident that Christ died as an innocent person, and not as a malefactor. On the fullest conviction of his innocence, his judge pronounced him guiltless, after having patiently heard every thing that the inventive malice of these wicked men could allege against him; and, when he wished to dismiss him, a violent mob took and murdered him.