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Luk 23:11. Ἐξουθενήσας, having set at nought) He did not think Jesus of sufficient importance to give himself any trouble about Him, as respects the allegations, whatever they might be, which the priests were making. He thought at the time that he had stripped Jesus of His wisdom and of His power.-ἐσθῆτα λαμπρὰν, a gorgeous robe) A royal vestment. [Such as he himself may be supposed either to have worn, or to have wished to wear.-V. g.] Herod seems to have meant contemptuously to indicate that he has no fears from such a king as this. But in reality he honoured Him unconsciously by the robe, as Pilate did by the inscription on the cross. [The elder Herod gave way to fears sooner than there was just reason for: this Herod, on the other hand, when the kingdom of Christ was now more immediately imminent, gives way to careless security. Such is the perverse way of the world.-V. g.]-ἀνέπεμψεν, sent Him back) He had it in his power, and ought to have rather let Him go free. [Therefore in sending back the innocent to Pilate, he involved himself in the guilt of Pilate. Act 4:27 (“Against thy holy child Jesus-both Herod and Pontius Pilate-were gathered together”).-Harm., p. 548].