Matthew 27:20-26

But the high priests and elders persuaded the crowds to ask Bar-Abbas and to have Jesus killed.

2 Corinthians 5:16

Once convinced of this, then, I estimate no one by what is external; even though I once estimated Christ by what is external, I no longer estimate him thus.

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Did I fear a great multitude, or did the contempt of families terrify me, that I kept silence, and went not out of the door?

The contempt

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Matthew 27:20
But the high priests and elders persuaded the crowds to ask Bar-Abbas and to have Jesus killed.

The contempt

2 Corinthians 5:16
Once convinced of this, then, I estimate no one by what is external; even though I once estimated Christ by what is external, I no longer estimate him thus.