Matthew 27:2

Amplified Bible

so they bound Him, and led Him away and handed Him over to Pilate the governor [of Judea, who had the authority to condemn prisoners to death].

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
After tying him up, they led him away and handed him over to Pilate, the governor.

King James Version (1611)
And when they had bound him, they led him away, and deliuered him to Pontius Pilate the gouernour.

King James Version
And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.

English Standard Version
And they bound him and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate the governor.

New American Standard Bible
and they bound Him and led Him away, and handed Him over to Pilate the governor.

New Century Version
They tied him, led him away, and turned him over to Pilate, the governor.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
and they bound Him, and led Him away and delivered Him to Pilate the governor.

Legacy Standard Bible
and they bound Him, and led Him away and delivered Him to Pilate the governor.

Berean Standard Bible
They bound Him, led Him away, and handed Him over to Pilate the governor.

Contemporary English Version
They tied him up and led him away to Pilate the governor.

Complete Jewish Bible
Then they put him in chains, led him away and handed him over to Pilate the governor.

Darby Translation
And having bound him they led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

Easy-to-Read Version
They tied him, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate, the governor.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And led him away bounde, and deliuered him vnto Pontius Pilate the gouernour.

George Lamsa Translation
So they bound him, and took him and delivered him to Pilate the governor.

Good News Translation
They put him in chains, led him off, and handed him over to Pilate, the Roman governor.

Lexham English Bible
And after tying him up, they led him away and handed him over to Pilate the governor.

Literal Translation
And binding Him, they led Him away and delivered Him to Pontius Pilate the governor.

American Standard Version
and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pilate the governor.

Bible in Basic English
And they put cords on him and took him away, and gave him up to Pilate, the ruler.

Hebrew Names Version
and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

International Standard Version
They bound him with chains, led him away, and handed him over to PontiusPontius">[fn] Pilate, the governor.Matthew 20:19; Acts 3:13;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
And they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him to Pilatos the governor.

Murdock Translation
And they bound him, and carried him and delivered him up to Pilate, the president.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And brought hym bounde, and deliuered hym to Pontius Pilate the deputie.

English Revised Version
and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pilate the governor.

World English Bible
and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And having bound him, they led him away and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governour.

Weymouth's New Testament
and binding Him they led Him away and handed Him over to Pilate the Governor.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei ledden him boundun, and bitoken to Pilat of Pounce, iustice.

Update Bible Version
and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pilate the governor.

Webster's Bible Translation
And when they had bound him, they led [him] away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.

New English Translation
They tied him up, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate the governor.

New King James Version
And when they had bound Him, they led Him away and delivered Him to Pontius [fn] Pilate the governor.

New Living Translation
Then they bound him, led him away, and took him to Pilate, the Roman governor.

New Life Bible
They tied Him and took Him away. Then they handed Him over to Pilate who was the leader of the country.

New Revised Standard
They bound him, led him away, and handed him over to Pilate the governor.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and, binding him, they led him away, and delivered him up unto Pilate the governor.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they brought him bound and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.

Revised Standard Version
and they bound him and led him away and delivered him to Pilate the governor.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and brought him bounde and delivered him vnto Poncius Pilate the debite.

Young's Literal Translation
and having bound him, they did lead away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and bounde him, and led him forth, and delyuered him vnto Pontius Pilate the debyte.

Mace New Testament (1729)
and when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor of Judea.

Simplified Cowboy Version
They tied him up and handed him over to Pilate, the Roman governor.

Contextual Overview

¹When it was morning, all the chief priests and the elders of the people (Sanhedrin, Jewish High Court) conferred together against Jesus, [plotting how] to put Him to death [since under Roman rule they had no power to execute anyone]; ²so they bound Him, and led Him away and handed Him over to Pilate the governor [of Judea, who had the authority to condemn prisoners to death].³When Judas, His betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he was gripped with remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, ⁴saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood." They replied, "What is that to us? See to that yourself!" ⁵And throwing the pieces of silver into the temple sanctuary, he left; and went away and hanged himself. ⁶The chief priests, picking up the pieces of silver, said, "It is not lawful to put these in the treasury [of the temple], because it is the price of blood." ⁷So after consultation they used the money to buy the Potter's Field as a burial place for strangers. ⁸Therefore that piece of ground has been called the Field of Blood to this day. ⁹Then the words spoken by Jeremiah the prophet were fulfilled: "AND THEY TOOK THE THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER, THE PRICE OF HIM ON WHOM A PRICE HAD BEEN SET by the sons of Israel; ¹⁰AND THEY GAVE THEM FOR THE POTTER'S FIELD, AS THE LORD DIRECTED ME."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

bound: Genesis 22:9, John 18:12, John 18:24, Acts 9:2, Acts 12:6, Acts 21:33, Acts 22:25, Acts 22:29, Acts 24:27, Acts 28:20, 2 Timothy 2:9, Hebrews 13:3

delivered: Matthew 20:19, Luke 18:32, Luke 18:33, Luke 20:20, Acts 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.

Reciprocal: Judges 15:12 - to bind thee Psalms 86:14 - assemblies Micah 2:1 - when Habakkuk 1:4 - for Matthew 21:38 - This Matthew 27:62 - the chief priests Matthew 28:12 - General Mark 10:33 - deliver Mark 15:1 - straightway Luke 23:1 - General Luke 24:20 - General John 11:47 - gathered John 18:28 - led John 19:11 - he Acts 4:1 - the priests Acts 4:5 - on Acts 4:27 - Pontius Pilate Acts 21:11 - and shall Acts 22:30 - because Acts 23:24 - the governor

Cross-References

Genesis 47:29
And when the time drew near for Israel to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, "If now I have found favor in your sight, please put your hand under my thigh and [promise to] deal loyally and faithfully with me. Please do not bury me in Egypt,

Genesis 48:21
Then Israel said to Joseph, "Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you, and bring you back to [Canaan] the land of your fathers.

1 Samuel 20:3
But David vowed again, saying "Your father certainly knows that I have found favor in your sight, and he has said, 'Do not let Jonathan know this, or he will be worried.' But truly as the LORD lives and as your soul lives, there is hardly a step between me and death."

Proverbs 27:1
Do not boast about tomorrow, For you do not know what a day may bring.

Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no activity or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) where you are going.

Isaiah 38:1
In those days Hezekiah [king of Judah] became sick and was at the point of death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him and said, "For the LORD says this, 'Set your house in order and prepare a will, for you shall die; you will not live.'"

Isaiah 38:3
and said, "Please, O LORD, just remember how I have walked before You in faithfulness and truth, and with a whole heart [absolutely devoted to You], and have done what is good in Your sight." And Hezekiah wept greatly.

Mark 13:35
"Therefore, be continually on the alert—for you do not know when the master of the house is coming, whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning—

James 4:14
Yet you do not know [the least thing] about what may happen in your life tomorrow. [What is secure in your life?] You are merely a vapor [like a puff of smoke or a wisp of steam from a cooking pot] that is visible for a little while and then vanishes [into thin air].

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when they had bound him,.... The captain, and officers, bound him when they first took him, and brought him to Annas, and Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas, John 18:12. Perhaps he might be unloosed whilst he was examining before the high priest, under a show of freedom to speak for himself; or they might bind him faster now, partly greater security, as he passed through the streets, and partly for his greater reproach; as also, that he might be at once taken to be a malefactor by the Roman judge;

they led him away: the chief priests and elders of the people led him, at least by their servants, and they themselves attending in person, that they might awe the people from attempting a rescue of him, as they passed along; and that they might influence the Roman governor speedily to put him to death; and lest he should be prevailed upon to release him, through his own commiseration, the innocence of Jesus, and the entreaty of his friends.

And delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor; and so fulfilled what Christ had predicted, Matthew 20:19. This they did, either because the power of judging in cases of life and death was taken away from them; or if it was not, they chose that the infamy of his death should be removed from them, and be laid upon a Gentile magistrate; and chiefly because they were desirous he should die the death of the cross. The Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions leave out the first name Pontius, and only call him Pilate: the Ethiopic version calls him Pilate Pontinaeus; and Theophylact suggests, that he was so called because he was of Pontus. Philo the Jew h makes mention of him:

"Pilate, says he, was επιτροπος της Ιουδαιας, "procurator of Judea"; who not so much in honour of Tiberius, as to grieve the people, put the golden shields within the holy city in the palace of Herod.''

And so Tacitus i calls him the procurator of Tiberius, and Josephus also k. It is said l of him, that falling into many calamities, he slew himself with his own hand, in the times of Caligula, and whilst Publicola and Nerva were consuls; which was a righteous judgment of God upon him for condemning Christ, contrary to his own conscience.

h De Legat. ad Caium, p. 1033, 1034. i Hist. l. 15. k De Bello Jud. l. 2. e. 9. sect. 2. l M. Aurel-Cassiodor. Chronicon in Caligula, Joseph. Antiq. l. 18. c. 11. Euseb. Eccl. Hist. l. 2. c. 7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And when they had bound him - He was “bound” when they took him in the garden, John 18:12. Probably when he was tried before the Sanhedrin in the palace of Caiaphas, he had been loosed from his bonds, being there surrounded by multitudes, and supposed to be safe. As they were about to lead him to another part of the city now, they again bound him. The binding consisted, probably, in nothing more than tying his hands.

Pontius Pilate, the governor - The governor appointed by the Romans over Judea. The governor commonly resided at Caesarea; but he came up to Jerusalem usually at the great feasts, when great numbers of the Jews were assembled, to administer justice, and to suppress tumults if any should arise. The “title” which Pilate received was that of “governor or procurator.” The duties of the office were, chiefly, to collect the revenues due to the Roman emperor, and in certain cases to administer justice. Pilate was appointed governor of Judea by Tiberius, then Emperor of Rome. John says John 18:28 that they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the hall of judgment - that is, to the part of the “praetorium,” or governor’s palace, where justice was administered. The Jews did not, however, enter in themselves, lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover. In Numbers 19:22 it is said that whosoever touched an unclean thing should be unclean. For this reason they would not enter into the house of a pagan, lest they should contract some defilement that would render them unfit to keep the Passover.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 27:2. They - delivered him to Pontius Pilate — The Sanhedrin had the power of life and death in their own hands in every thing that concerned religion; but as they had not evidence to put Christ to death because of false doctrine, they wished to give countenance to their conduct by bringing in the civil power, and therefore they delivered him up to Pilate as one who aspired to regal dignities, and whom he must put to death, if he professed to be Caesar's friend. Pontius Pilate governed Judea ten years under the Emperor Tiberius; but, having exercised great cruelties against the Samaritans, they complained of him to the emperor, in consequence of which he was deposed, and sent in exile to Vienna, in Dauphiny, where he killed himself two years after.