Verse 42

And the soldiers' counsel was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one having swam out should escape,

Referenced Verses

• Ps 74:20 : 20 Look attentively to the covenant, For the dark places of earth, Have been full of habitations of violence.
• Prov 12:10 : 10 The righteous knoweth the life of his beast, And the mercies of the wicked `are' cruel.
• Eccl 9:3 : 3 This `is' an evil among all that hath been done under the sun, that one event `is' to all, and also the heart of the sons of man is full of evil, and madness `is' in their heart during their life, and after it -- unto the dead.
• Mark 15:15-20 : 15 and Pilate, wishing to content the multitude, released to them Barabbas, and delivered up Jesus -- having scourged `him' -- that he might be crucified. 16 And the soldiers led him away into the hall, which is Praetorium, and call together the whole band, 17 and clothe him with purple, and having plaited a crown of thorns, they put `it' on him, 18 and began to salute him, `Hail, King of the Jews.' 19 And they were smiting him on the head with a reed, and were spitting on him, and having bent the knee, were bowing to him, 20 and when they `had' mocked him, they took the purple from off him, and clothed him in his own garments, and they led him forth, that they may crucify him.
• Luke 23:40-41 : 40 And the other answering, was rebuking him, saying, `Dost thou not even fear God, that thou art in the same judgment? 41 and we indeed righteously, for things worthy of what we did we receive back, but this one did nothing out of place;'
• Acts 12:19 : 19 and Herod having sought for him, and not having found, having examined the guards, did command `them' to be led away to punishment, and having gone down from Judea to Cesarea, he was abiding `there'.