...(for He was bound already) they led Him away and delivered Him to Pontius Pilate the governor ; for it was not lawful for them to put any man to death. (S. John xviii. 31.) Little did they think that by delivering Him up to the Governor they were bringing...

...to condemn me, neither at any time to put a man to death : so, in like sort, the high priests said, that it was not lawful for them to put any man to death, but committed Christ to Pilate, neither would sufler him to absolve Christ, although he sought all...

...hypocritical pretenders to sanctity have dared to go so far, had it not been for our lie ? Just now they said it was not lawful for them to put any man to death ; yet they have incited the mob to this murderous deed ; and one of their learned ones, of whose holiness...

...rich viands, by the contrast of their tempting savour to the dryness of his own black bread. Because it was not lawful for them to put any man to death, they imprisoned him in his cell for life or recantation, and bringing him out every third or fourth...

...second temple, and " of this opinion are many divines. " Answer—First, the Jews' speech unto Pilate that it was '.' not lawful for them to put any man to death, cannot be under" stood as if they should have said, We have no power to put "any man to death; for...

...pronounced Him guilty of death. But though permitted to exercise authority over their own nation, it seems it was not lawful for them to put any man to death ; not lawful, I suppose, by Jewish usage, in the Passover week ; for not long after, they put Stephen...

...dilemma of either authorizing a capital punishment at a time when they were ostentatiously proclaiming that it was not lawful for them to put any man to death ; or else seeming to set aside the law of Moses, and encourage levity of morals. In both cases He baffles...

...Those who assert that they retain the power of capital punishment, think that when the Jews told Pilate that it was not lawful for them to put any man to death, they merely meant that it was not lawful for them to do so on the day on which they were to eat the...

...peculiar customs, directed them to take Jesus, and deal with him according to their law. They replied that it was not lawful for them to put any man to death. It has been a great question, whether this was true in its full extent, or whether they only meant...

...intervention of the secular arm in the matter of punishments, because, as the Jews pleaded before Pilate, it was not lawful for them to put any man to death. The canon law forbade the clergy to shed blood, and they carried their respect for the letter of this...