{Delivered him up to Pilate the governor} (pared(936b)an
Peilat(9369) t(9369) h(8867)emoni). What they had done was all a form and a
farce. Pilate had the power of death, but they had greatly
enjoyed the condemnation and the buffeting of Jesus now in their
power bound as a condemned criminal. He was no longer the master
of assemblies in the temple, able to make the Sanhedrin cower
before him. He had been bound in the garden and was bound before
Annas ( Joh 18:12,24 ), but may have been unbound before
Caiaphas.