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If this man were not an evil-doer (ei mē ēn houtos kakon poiōn). Condition (negative) of second class (periphrastic imperfect indicative), assumed to be untrue, with the usual apodosis (an and aorist indicative, first aorist plural with k). This is a pious pose of infallibility not in the Synoptics. They then proceeded to make the charges (Luk 23:2) as indeed John implies (Joh 18:31, Joh 18:33). Some MSS. here read kakopoios (malefactor) as in 1Pe 2:12, 1Pe 2:14, with which compare Luke’s kakourgos (Luk 23:32.; so also 2Ti 2:9), both meaning evil-doer. Here the periphrastic present participle poiōn with kakon emphasizes the idea that Jesus was a habitual evil-doer (Abbott). It was an insolent reply to Pilate (Bernard).