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But they were the more urgent (hoi de epischuon). Imperfect active of epischuō, to give added (epi) strength (ischuō). And they kept insisting. Evidently Pilate had taken the thing too lightly.
He stirred up the people (anaseiei ton laon). This compound is rare, though old (Thucydides), to shake up (back and forth). This is a more vigorous repetition of the first charge (Luk 23:2, “perverting our nation”).
Beginning from Galilee (arxamenos apo tēs Galilaias). These very words occur in the address of Peter to the group in the house of Cornelius (Act 10:37). The idiomatic use of arxamenos appears also in Act 1:22. Galilee (Grote) was the mother of seditious men (see Josephus).