STraightway in the morning] Matthew 27:1. and the whole council] For there were Pharisees there, and ordinary priests, which are not here named. and bound Jesus] Christ being bound before the judgementseat of an earthly judge, in open assembly, is condemned, as guilty, unto the death of the crosse; not for his own sins, as appeareth by the judges own words; but for ours altogether, that we, most guilty creatures, being delivered from the guiltinesse of our sinnes, might be quitted before the judgement-seat of God, even in open assembly of the angels. and delivered him to Pilate] It was not lawfull for them to put any man to death; for all causes of life and death were taken away from them, first by Herod the great, and afterward by the Romans; and therefore they deliver Jesus to Pilate.