Matthew 27:1-10
The opening of this chapter describes the delivery of our Lord Jesus Christ into the hands of the Gentiles. The chief priests and elders of the Jews led Him away to Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor. We may see in this incident the finger of God: it was ordered by His providence that Gentiles as well as Jews should be concerned in the murder of Christ; it was ordered by His providence that the priests should publicly confess that “the sceptre had departed from Judah”. They were unable to put anyone to death without going to the Romans: the words of Jacob were therefore fulfilled. The Messiah, Shiloh had indeed come. (Gen. 49:10)
The subject that principally occupies the verses we have read is the melancholy end of the false apostle, Judas Iscariot. It is a subject full of instruction: let us mark well what it contains.
We see, in the end of Judas, a plain proof of our Lord’s innocence of every charge laid against Him.