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The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings…
The harmony of the Gospels in the holy history of the humiliation and sufferings of Jesus Christ from his incarnation to his death and burial published by John Eliot ...
Boston: printed by John Foster, 1678
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. Pilate went forth again unto the Jews, and thus speaketh unto them.
First, Behold I bring him forth to you, viz. uncondemned, that ye might know that I find no fault in him; but with your favour Pilate, is this a sign that he is innocent, when you have thus abused him? what meaneth that blood about his ears and face, on his back and sides, are these marks of an Innocent man? or if he be Innocent, as you affirm, and that most truly, that he is, are not these marks of an unjust Judge?
2dly. Then Jesus came forth, wearing the Crown of thorns, and the purple Robe all bloody, battered and abused, baptized with his own blood.
3dl. Pilate saith, behold the man. that is, you see I have punished him, to pacify you, let that suffice, and so I will release him, though thus much of the sense of the words is not expressed, yet tis probable, he laboured to work upon their compassion and pity: but we see that no humane policy can quench the rage of the wicked ⟨p. 96⟩