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His son (παῖδα)
Rightly, servant, as Rev. See on Luk 1:54. The A. V. renders, in Mat 12:18, servant, quoting from Isa 42:1; but elsewhere, where applied to Jesus, son or child, which Rev. in every case has changed to servant. The word is continually used, like the Latin puer, in the sense of servant, and in the Septuagint as the servant of God. See 2Sa 7:5, 2Sa 7:8, 2Sa 7:19, 2Sa 7:20, 2Sa 7:21, 2Sa 7:25, 2Sa 7:26. Compare Luk 1:69. The term servant of Jehovah, or servant of the Lord, is applied in the Old Testament (1) to a worshipper of God, Neh 1:10; Dan 6:21; so to Abraham, Psa 105:6, Psa 105:42; to Joshua, Jos 24:29; to Job, Job 1:8. (2) To a minister or ambassador of God called to any service, Isa 49:6; of Nebuchadnezzar, Jer 27:6; of the prophets, Amo 3:7; of Moses, Deu 34:5. (3) Peculiarly of the Messiah, Isa 42:1; Isa 52:13; as God's chosen servant for accomplishing the work of redemption. “Unless we render servant in the passages where the phrase παῖς Θεοῦ occurs in the New Testament, there will be no allusion throughout it all to that group of prophecies which designate the Messiah as the servant of Jehovah, who learned obedience by the things which he suffered” (Trench, “On the Authorized Version of the New Testament”).
When he
He is ἐκείνου, the pronoun of more definite and emphatic reference, the latter, Pilate, “in order to make the contrast felt between what Pilate judged and what they did.” This is further emphasized in the next verse.