when they had bound him] Gr. having bound him. To wit, before, at his apprehension, John 18:12. They led him bound to Pilate, as a malefactour, to be tried for his life. delivered him to Pilate] That they might put him to death by a judiciary course; for, to do it privily, would have been infamous; and, in tumultuary way, it would have been jeopardous, Luke 24:20. And God in his providence so disposing it, that he might suffer that death, being most usuall among the Romanes, that himself had foretold, Joh. 12. 32, 33. and 18. 31, 32.