Neither has Herod, for I sent you to him, and see, nothing worthy of death has been done by him.
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Neither has Herod, for I sent you to him, and see, nothing worthy of death has been done by him.
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No nor yet Herode. For I sent you to him: and lo no thinge worthy of deeth is done to him.
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No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him: and loe, nothing worthy of death is done of him.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 15 No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you…
15 No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him.
Ver. 15. No, nor yet Herod] Nor any man alive, though he had the devil to help him. The poets bring in Momus finding fault with the creaking of Venus’ slipper. But Christ was αμνος αμωμος, as St Peter calleth him, 1Pe 1:19, the spotless Lamb of God, in whom Momus himself could find nothing amiss, after long seeking. See Joh 14:30.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain No, nor yet Herod,.... Who was a Jew, and…
No, nor yet Herod,.... Who was a Jew, and better versed in their religious affairs, and understood the nature of such charges, and the amount of them, and what was sufficient proof in such cases; and who had also examined Jesus, and that in their presence, and had heard all that they had to accuse him with, and yet found no fault in him of any such kind, as to condemn him to death for it:
for I sent you to him; along with Jesus, to make your allegations against him good before him; or, "I sent him to him", as the Syriac version reads; that is, Jesus to him, as the Persic version expresses, he being of his country, and belonging to his jurisdiction; or, "he sent him back to us"; as the Arabic version reads, and three of Beza's copies: that is, Herod, after he had examined Jesus, and found no fault in him, sent him again to us; not being able to make out any crime against him, or to pass any judgment on the matter, for it follows;
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and lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him; or "by him": the sense is, either that it appeared to Herod, that Christ had done nothing that deserved death; or that nothing was done to him by Herod, which showed that he thought he was worthy of it; since he passed no sentence on him, nor ordered him to be scourged, nor delivered him into the hands of an executioner, or to be imprisoned until things could be cleared up.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain He hath done nothing worthy of death - According…
He hath done nothing worthy of death - According to the judgment of Herod also.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 15. No, nor yet Herod: for I sent…
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 ανεπεμψα γαρ ὑμας προς αυτον, for I sent you to him, BHKLM, and many other MSS., with some versions, read ανεπεμψεν γαρ αυτον προς ἡμας, 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."
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Nothing worthy of death is done unto him.] Or rather, nothing worthy of death is committed by him, Πεπραγμενον αυτῳ, not, done unto him. This phrase is of the same sense with ουδεν πεπραχεν αυτος, he hath done nothing, and is frequent in the purest Attic writers. See many examples in Kypke.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Nothing worthy of death is done unto him -…
Nothing worthy of death is done unto him - Deserving of death. The charges are not proved against him. They had had every opportunity of proving them, first before Pilate and then before Herod, unjustly subjecting him to trial before “two” men in succession, and thus giving them a double opportunity of condemning him, and yet, after all, he was declared by both to be innocent. There could be no better evidence that he “was” innocent.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Nothing worthy of death is done to him. Herod…
Nothing worthy of death is done to him. Herod has not treated him as a criminal, or one worthy of death. He only derided him as a fool: had there been any cause to punish him, he would not have failed to have done it himself, or commanded me to put him to death. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 15. Nothing worthy of death—As a representative man, this…
15. Nothing worthy of death—As a representative man, this Gentile stands before the Jew and pronounces Jesus innocent. But while he thus confessed him innocent, he did not make himself so. He shed innocent blood. So the Gentile nations pronounce Jesus innocent; yet it is their sin that ever crucifies him afresh.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 15. for I sent you to him] Or for…
15. for I sent you to him] Or for he sent Him back to us, (א, B, K, L, M).
is done unto him] Rather, hath been done by Him.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (15) I sent you to him.—The better MSS. give,…
(15) I sent you to him.—The better MSS. give, “he sent him back to us.”
Nothing worthy of death is done unto him.—Better, is done by Him. The translators appear to have mistaken the construction, and to have taken the words as meaning “nothing worthy of death has been done to—i.e., against—Herod.” The error is common to all the English versions.
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Connecting Statement:
Connecting Statement:
Pilate continues speaking to the Jewish leaders and to the crowd.
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No, nor does Herod
It may be helpful to add information that is not included in the short statement. AT: "Even Herod does not think he is guilty" or "Even Herod thinks he is innocent" (See: Ellipsis)
nor does Herod, for
"nor does Herod, because" or "nor does Herod. We know this because"
he sent him back to us
"Herod sent Jesus to return to us." The word "us" refers to Pilate, his soldiers, and the priests and scribes, but not those who were listening to Pilate. (See: Exclusive and Inclusive "We")
nothing worthy of death has been done by him
This can be stated in active form. AT: "he has not done anything to deserve a death sentence" (See: Active or Passive)
I will therefore punish him
Because Pilate had found no fault in Jesus he should have released him without punishment. It is not necessary to try to make this statement fit logically into the translation. Pilate punished Jesus, whom he knew to be innocent, only because he was afraid of the crowd.
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