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John 19:8

When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Demagogism;   Jesus, the Christ;   King;   Opinion, Public;   Politics;   Thompson Chain Reference - Pilate, Pontius;   Pontius Pilate;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fear, Unholy;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Christianity;   Humiliation of Christ;   Jesus Christ;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bride;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Attributes of Christ;   Divination;   Influence;   Pilate;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jesus Christ, the Arrest and Trial of;   Pilate, Pontius;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for October 22;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
When Pilate heard this, he was more afraid.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
When Pylate hearde that sayinge he was the moare afrayde
Hebrew Names Version
When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.
International Standard Version
When Pilate heard this, he became even more afraid.
New American Standard Bible
Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid;
New Century Version
When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid.
Update Bible Version
When Pilate therefore heard this saying, he was the more afraid;
Webster's Bible Translation
When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;
English Standard Version
When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid.
World English Bible
When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
When Pilate heard that saying,
Weymouth's New Testament
More alarmed than ever, Pilate no sooner heard these words than he re-entered the Praetorium and began to question Jesus.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor whanne Pilat hadde herd this word, he dredde the more.
English Revised Version
When Pilate therefore heard this saying, he was the more afraid;
Contemporary English Version
When Pilate heard this, he was terrified.
Amplified Bible
So when Pilate heard this said, he was [even] more alarmed and afraid.
American Standard Version
When Pilate therefore heard this saying, he was the more afraid;
Bible in Basic English
When this saying came to Pilate's ears his fear became greater;
Complete Jewish Bible
On hearing this, Pilate became even more frightened.
Darby Translation
When Pilate therefore heard this word, he was the rather afraid,
Etheridge Translation
When Pilatos heard that word, he the more feared.
Murdock Translation
And when Pilate heard that declaration, he feared the more.
King James Version (1611)
When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid,
New Living Translation
When Pilate heard this, he was more frightened than ever.
New Life Bible
When Pilate heard them say this, he was more afraid.
New Revised Standard
Now when Pilate heard this, he was more afraid than ever.
Geneva Bible (1587)
When Pilate then heard that woorde, he was the more afraide,
George Lamsa Translation
When Pilate heard this saying, he was the more afraid;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
When, therefore, Pilate heard this word, he was the more afraid;
Douay-Rheims Bible
When Pilate therefore had heard this saying, he feared the more.
Revised Standard Version
When Pilate heard these words, he was the more afraid;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
When Pilate hearde that saying, he was the more afrayde.
Good News Translation
When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid.
Christian Standard Bible®
When Pilate heard this statement, he was more afraid than ever.
King James Version
When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;
Lexham English Bible
So when Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid,
Literal Translation
Then when Pilate heard this word, he was more afraid.
Young's Literal Translation
When, therefore, Pilate heard this word, he was the more afraid,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Whan Pilate herde that worde, he was the more afrayed,
Mace New Testament (1729)
Pilate upon hearing that, was still more apprehensive.
THE MESSAGE
When Pilate heard this, he became even more scared. He went back into the palace and said to Jesus, "Where did you come from?" Jesus gave no answer.
New English Translation
When Pilate heard what they said, he was more afraid than ever,
New King James Version
Therefore, when Pilate heard that saying, he was the more afraid,
Simplified Cowboy Version
When Pilate heard this, he started getting worried.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid;
Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he became more afraid;

Contextual Overview

1Then Pilate took Jesus and had Him flogged. 2The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on His head, and dressed Him in a purple robe. 3And they went up to Him again and again, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and slapping Him in the face. 4Once again Pilate came out and said to the Jews, "Look, I am bringing Him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against Him." 5When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, "Here is the man!" 6As soon as the chief priests and officers saw Him, they shouted, "Crucify Him! Crucify Him!" "You take Him and crucify Him," Pilate replied, "for I find no basis for a charge against Him." 7"We have a law," answered the Jews, "and according to that law He must die, because He declared Himself to be the Son of God." 8When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid,9and he went back into the Praetorium. "Where are You from?" he asked. But Jesus gave no answer. 10So Pilate said to Him, "Do You refuse to speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority to release You and authority to crucify You?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

heard: John 19:13, Acts 14:11-19

Reciprocal: Daniel 3:25 - the Son of God Jonah 1:10 - were Matthew 27:27 - common hall Acts 24:6 - and

Cross-References

Genesis 18:5
And I will bring a bit of bread so that you may refresh yourselves. This is why you have passed your servant's way. After that, you may continue on your way." "Yes," they replied, "you may do as you have said."
Genesis 19:31
One day the older daughter said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.
Genesis 19:38
The younger daughter also gave birth to a son, and she named him Ben-ammi. He is the father of the Ammonites of today.
Genesis 42:37
Then Reuben said to his father, "You may kill my two sons if I fail to bring him back to you. Put him in my care, and I will return him."
Exodus 32:22
"Do not be enraged, my lord," Aaron replied. "You yourself know that the people are intent on evil.
Judges 9:15
But the thornbush replied, 'If you really are anointing me as king over you, come and find refuge in my shade. But if not, may fire come out of the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon."
Judges 19:24
Look, let me bring out my virgin daughter and the man's concubine, and you can use them and do with them as you wish. But do not do such a vile thing to this man."
Isaiah 58:7
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
Mark 9:6
For they were all so terrified that Peter did not know what else to say.
Romans 3:8
Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, "Let us do evil that good may result?" Their condemnation is deserved!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When Pilate therefore heard that saying,.... That Jesus had asserted himself to be the Son of God, and that the Jews had a law to put such a person to death that was guilty of such blasphemy:

he was the more afraid; he was afraid to put him to death, or to consent to it before; partly on account of his wife's message to him, and partly upon a conviction of the innocence of Christ, in his own conscience: and now he was more afraid, since here was a charge brought against him he did not well understand the meaning of; and a law of theirs pretended to be violated hereby, which should he pay no regard to, might occasion a tumult, since they were already become very clamorous and noisy; and he might be the more uneasy, test the thing they charged him with asserting, should be really fact; that he was one of the gods come down in the likeness of man; or that he was some demi-god at least, or so nearly related to deity, that it might be dangerous for him to have anything to do with him this way: and in this suspicion he might be strengthened, partly from the writings of the Heathens, which speak of such sort of beings; and partly from the miracles he might have heard were performed by Jesus; and also by calling to mind what he had lately said to him, that his kingdom was not of this world, and that he was come into it to bear witness to the truth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When Pilate therefore heard that saying - That they had accused him of blasphemy. As this was not the charge on which they had arraigned him before his bar, he had not before heard it, and it now convinced him more of their malignity and wickedness.

He was the more afraid - What was the ground of his fear is not declared by the evangelist. It was probably, however, the alarm of his conscience, and the fear of vengeance if he suffered such an act of injustice to be done as to put an innocent man to death. He was convinced of his innocence. He saw more and more clearly the design of the Jews; and it is not improbable that a pagan, who believed that the gods often manifested themselves to people, dreaded their vengeance if he suffered one who claimed to be divine, and who might be, to be put to death. It is clear that Pilate was convinced that Jesus was innocent; and in this state of agitation between the convictions of his own conscience, and the clamors of the Jews, and the fear of vengeance, and the certainty that he would do wrong if he gave him up, he was thrown into this state of alarm, and resolved again to question Jesus, that he might obtain satisfaction on the subjects that agitated his mind.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 19:8. He was the more afraid — While Jesus was accused only as a disturber of the peace of the nation, which accusation Pilate knew to be false, he knew he could deliver him, because the judgment in that case belonged to himself; but when the Jews brought a charge against him of the most capital nature, from their own laws, he then saw that he had every thing to fear, if he did not deliver Jesus to their will. The Sanhedrin must not be offended-the populace must not be irritated: from the former a complaint might be sent against him to Caesar; the latter might revolt, or proceed to some acts of violence, the end of which could not be foreseen. Pilate was certainly to be pitied: he saw what was right, and he wished to do it; but he had not sufficient firmness of mind. He did not attend to that important maxim, Fiat justitia: ruat caelum. Let justice be done, though the heavens should be dissolved. He had a vile people to govern, and it was not an easy matter to keep them quiet. Some suppose that Pilate's fear arose from hearing that Jesus had said he was the Son of God; because Pilate, who was a polytheist, believed that it was possible for the offspring of the gods to visit mortals; and he was afraid to condemn Jesus, for fear of offending some of the supreme deities. Perhaps the question in the succeeding verse refers to this.


 
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