{To content the multitude} (	(9369) ochl(9369) to hikanon
poi(8873)ai). A Latin idiom (_satisfacere alicui_), to do what is
sufficient to remove one's ground of complaint. This same phrase
occurs in Polybius, Appian, Diogenes Laertes, and in late papyri.
Pilate was afraid of this crowd now completely under the control
of the Sanhedrin. He knew what they would tell Caesar about him.
See on 烘t 27:26| for discussion of the scourging.