ACC ~ John 19 v4

PILATE ADMITS TO SCOURGING AN INNOCENT MAN

CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA: He confesses the wrong he had done and is not ashamed. For he admitted that he had scourged him without cause and declares that he will show him to them supposing that would satisfy their savage passion by so pitiable a spectacle. In fact, he practically accuses them as well—and that publicly—of putting him to death unjustly and of compelling him openly to be a lawbreaker who, if he transgressed his own laws, could not escape without repercussions. The saying was fulfilled in Christ and shown to be true, that “the prince of this world comes and he will find nothing in me.” [1] COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 12. [2]

[1] ESUS IS INFORMED THAT LAZARUS IS SICK | JOHN 11:1-5

[2] LF 48:607*.

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