Matthew 27:20-26

But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas, and to destroy Jesus.

2 Corinthians 5:16

So that we henceforth know no one according to the flesh; and if we have even known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we no longer know him.

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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 chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas, and to destroy Jesus.

The contempt

2 Corinthians 5:16
So that we henceforth know no one according to the flesh; and if we have even known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we no longer know him.