Matthew 27 · Verse 2

Matthew 27:2

And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
Matthew 27:2, King James Version

Matthew 27:2 in other translations

BSBThey bound Him, led Him away, and handed Him over to Pilate the governor.
WEBThey bound him, led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.
ASVand they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pilate the governor.
YLTand having bound him, they did lead away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.
DARBYAnd having bound him they led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.
BBEAnd they put cords on him and took him away, and gave him up to Pilate, the ruler.
WebsterAnd when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.

What does Matthew 27:2 mean?

Barnes' Notes
Verse 2. And when they had bound him. He was bound when they took him in the garden, Jn 18:12. Probably when he was tried before the sanhedrim, in the palace of Caiaphas, he had been loosed from his bonds--being there surrounded by multitudes, and supposed to be safe. As they were about to lead him to another part of the city now, they again bound him. The binding consisted, probably, in nothing more than tying his hands.

Pontius Pilate the governor. The governor, appointed by the Romans, over Judea. The governor commonly resided at Caesarea; but he came up to Jerusalem usually at the great feasts, when most of the Jews were assembled, to administer justice, and to suppress tumults, if any should arise. The title which Pilate received was that of governor, or procurator. The duties of the office were chiefly to collect the revenues due to the Roman emperor, and, in certain cases, to administer justice. Pilate was appointed governor of Judea by Tiberius, then emperor of Rome. John says Jn 18:28 that they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the hall of judgment--that is, to the part of the praetorium, or governor's palace, where justice was administered. The Jews did not, however, enter in themselves, lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the passover. In Nu 19:22, it is said, that whosoever touched an unclean thing should be unclean, For this reason they would not enter into the house of a heathen, lest they should contract some defilement that would render them unfit to keep the passover.

(n) "him to" Mt 20:19

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 2 They - delivered him to Pontius Pilate - The Sanhedrin had the power of life and death in their own hands in every thing that concerned religion; but as they had not evidence to put Christ to death because of false doctrine, they wished to give countenance to their conduct by bringing in the civil power, and therefore they delivered him up to Pilate as one who aspired to regal dignities, and whom he must put to death, if he professed to be Caesar's friend. Pontius Pilate governed Judea ten years under the Emperor Tiberius; but, having exercised great cruelties against the Samaritans, they complained of him to the emperor, in consequence of which he was deposed, and sent in exile to Vienna, in Dauphiny, where he killed himself two years after.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Matthew 27:1-10

Wicked men see little of the consequences of their crimes when they commit them, but they must answer for them all. In the fullest manner Judas acknowledged to the chief priests that he had sinned, and betrayed an innocent person. This was full testimony to the character of Christ; but the rulers were hardened. Casting down the money, Judas departed, and went and hanged himself, not being able to bear the terror of…

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Matthew 27:2 in the original Greek

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καὶkaiAndG2532
δήσαντεςdēsanteshaving boundG1210
αὐτὸνautonHimG846
ἀπήγαγονapēgagonthey led away [Him]G520
καὶkaiandG2532
παρέδωκανparedōkandeliveredG3860
αὐτὸνautonHimG846
ΠοντίῳPontiōto PontiusG4194
ΠιλάτῳPilatōPilateG4091
τῷtōtheG3588
ἡγεμόνι.¶hēgemonigovernor.G2232

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Cross references for Matthew 27:2

  • Acts 3:13

    The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.

  • Matthew 20:19

    And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.

  • 1 Timothy 6:13

    I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;

  • Luke 13:1

    There were present at that season some that told him of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.

  • Luke 20:20

    And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.

  • Luke 3:1

    Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,

  • 2 Timothy 2:9

    Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.

  • Acts 21:33

    Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.

  • Acts 9:2

    And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.

  • Hebrews 13:3

    Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

  • Acts 22:29

    Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.

  • Acts 28:20

    For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
bound.
Ge 22:9; Joh 18:12,24; Ac 9:2; 12:6; 21:33; 22:25,29; 24:27; 28:20
2Ti 2:9; Heb 13:3
delivered.
20:19; Lu 18:32,33; 20:20; Ac 3:13
Pontius Pilate.Pontius Pilate governed Judea ten years under the emperor Tiberius, from his 13th to his 23rd year A.D. 26 to 36; but, having exercised great cruelties against the Samaritans, they complained to Vitellius, governor of Syria, who sent Marcellus, one of his friends, to superintend Judea, and ordered Pilate to Rome, to give an account of his conduct to Tiberius. The emperor was dead before he arrived; but it is an ancient tradition, that he was banished to Vienne in Dauphiny, where he was reduced to such extremity that he killed himself with his own sword two years after.

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Context

  • Matthew 27:1

    When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

  • Matthew 27:2

    And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.

  • Matthew 27:3

    Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,

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Matthew 27:2 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y le llevaron atado, y le entregaron á Poncio Pilato presidente.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et l’ayant lié, ils l’emmenèrent et le livrèrent à Ponce Pilate, le gouverneur.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und nachdem sie ihn gebunden hatten, führten sie ihn weg und überlieferten ihn Pontius Pilatus, dem Landpfleger.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et vinctum adduxerunt eum, et tradiderunt Pontio Pilato præsidi.