Matthew 27:18

World English Bible (2000)

For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him up.

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  • Prov 27:4 : 4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
  • Eccl 4:4 : 4 Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man's neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
  • Isa 26:11 : 11 Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don't see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.
  • Mark 15:10 : 10 For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up.
  • Acts 5:17 : 17 But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy,
  • Acts 7:9 : 9 "The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,
  • Acts 13:45 : 45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.
  • Jas 4:5 : 5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?
  • Gen 37:11 : 11 His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.
  • 1 Sam 18:7-9 : 7 The women sang one to another as they played, and said, "Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands." 8 Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him; and he said, "They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands. What can he have more but the kingdom?" 9 Saul eyed David from that day and forward. 10 It happened on the next day, that an evil spirit from God came mightily on Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house. David played with his hand, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand; 11 and Saul threw the spear; for he said, "I will pin David even to the wall!" David escaped from his presence twice.
  • Ps 106:16 : 16 They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron, Yahweh's saint.

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    9Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

    10For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up.

    11But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should release Barabbas to them instead.

  • Matt 27:15-17
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    15Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release to the multitude one prisoner, whom they desired.

    16They had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.

    17When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ?"

  • Luke 23:24-25
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    24Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done.

    25He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will.

  • Matt 27:1-2
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    1Now when morning had come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

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  • John 19:16
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    16So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.

  • Matt 27:19-20
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    19While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him."

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  • Luke 23:17-20
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    17Now he had to release one prisoner to them at the feast.

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  • Matt 26:15-16
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    15and said, "What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?" They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.

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    26Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified.

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    30They answered him, "If this man weren't an evildoer, we wouldn't have delivered him up to you."

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    23him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

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    14Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, "Crucify him!"

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    20and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him up to be condemned to death, and crucified him.

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    27For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn't know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.

    28Though they found no cause for death, they still asked Pilate to have him killed.

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    7When he found out that he was in Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem during those days.

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    11They, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. He sought how he might conveniently deliver him.

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    39But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

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    2The chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.

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    32that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.

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