Exodus 23:2
23:2 “You must not follow a crowd in doing evil things; in a lawsuit you must not offer testimony that agrees with a crowd so as to pervert justice,
Proverbs 29:25
29:25 The fear of people becomes a snare,
but whoever trusts in the Lord will be set on high.
Jeremiah 38:4-5
38:4 So these officials said to the king, “This man must be put to death. For he is demoralizing
the soldiers who are left in the city as well as all the other people there by these things he is saying.
This
man is not seeking to help these people but is trying to harm them.”
38:5 King Zedekiah said to them, “Very well, you can do what you want with him.
For I cannot do anything to stop you.”
Jeremiah 38:16
38:16 So King Zedekiah made a secret promise to Jeremiah and sealed it with an oath. He promised,
“As surely as the
Lord lives who has given us life and breath,
I promise you this: I will not kill you or hand you over to those men who want to kill you.”
Jeremiah 38:19
38:19 Then King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Judeans who have deserted to the Babylonians.
The Babylonians might hand me over to them and they will torture me.”
Matthew 27:20-26
27:20 But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus killed.
27:21 The
governor asked them, “Which of the two do you want me to release for you?” And they said, “Barabbas!”
27:22 Pilate said to them, “Then what should I do with Jesus who is called the Christ?”
They all said, “Crucify him!”
27:23 He asked, “Why? What wrong has he done?” But they shouted more insistently, “Crucify him!”
Jesus is Condemned and Mocked
27:24 When Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but that instead a riot was starting, he took some water, washed his hands before the crowd and said, “I am innocent of this man’s blood. You take care of it yourselves!”
27:25 In reply all the people said, “Let his blood be on us and on our children!”
27:26 Then he released Barabbas for them. But after he had Jesus flogged, he handed him over to be crucified.