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Luke 23:14

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Bede

But Pilate, having called together the chief priests, and the magistrates, and the people, said to them: Consider how much effort Pilate took to release Jesus. First, when the chief priests accused him, he said he found no cause in him. Then, when they persisted in their accusation, he sent him to Herod to see if he might find any crime in him, or perhaps decide to release him. …

On the Gospel of Luke ↗

Bonaventure

Therefore it is added: He said to them: You have brought this man to me as one turning the people away, recalling the accusation: whence John eighteen: "If this man were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him to you." And after the accusation follows the inquiry, therefore he adds: And behold, I, examining him before you, have found no cause in this man regarding those things in which you accuse him. But neither has Herod. …

Commentary on Luke, Chapter 23 ↗