Verse 42

Then the souldiers counsell was to kill the prisoners, least any of them, when he had swomme out, should flee away.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 74:20 : 20 Consider thy couenant: for the darke places of the earth are full of the habitations of the cruell.
• Prov 12:10 : 10 A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the mercies of the wicked are cruell.
• Eccl 9:3 : 3 This is euill among all that is done vnder the sunne, that there is one condition to all, and also the heart of the sonnes of men is full of euill, and madnes is in their heartes whiles they liue, and after that, they goe to the dead.
• Mark 15:15-20 : 15 So Pilate willing to content the people, loosed them Barabbas, & deliuered Iesus, when he had scourged him, that he might be crucified. 16 Then the souldiers led him away into the hall, which is the common hall, and called together the whole band, 17 And clad him with purple, and platted a crowne of thornes, and put it about his head, 18 And began to salute him, saying, Haile, King of the Iewes. 19 And they smote him on the head with a reede, and spat vpon him, and bowed the knees, and did him reuerence. 20 And whe they had mocked him, they tooke the purple off him, and put his owne clothes on him, and led him out to crucifie him.
• Luke 23:40-41 : 40 But the other answered, and rebuked him, saying, Fearest thou not God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? 41 We are in deede righteously here: for we receiue things worthy of that we haue done: but this man hath done nothing amisse.
• Acts 12:19 : 19 And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the keepers, and commaunded them to be led to be punished; he went downe from Iudea to Cesarea, and there abode.