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Joh_18:32. The aim ordained in the divine purpose, why the Jews, in consequence of having lost the right of life and death, were obliged to answer “ ἡμῖν οὐκ ἔξεστιν , κ . τ . λ .” Otherwise, Jesus, as a false prophet and blasphemer of God, would have been stoned (like Stephen, and comp. Joh_8:59, Joh_10:31), but would not have been visited with the Roman punishment of crucifixion, namely, as one guilty of high treason, as He, with His pretensions as Messiah, could not but appear to be before the Roman courts; and the word of Jesus, Joh_12:32, would have remained unfulfilled.