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When 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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Verse 7. He sent him away to Herod. Pilate, in this instance, not only extricated himself from the importunities of the Jewish priests, (verse 5) but moreover obeyed the Roman law in that particular, which forbade any one to be condemned by a governor to whom he was not the subject. Theophylactus.
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