Matthew 27:20-26

The High Priests, however, and the Elders urged the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to demand the death of Jesus.

2 Corinthians 5:16

Therefore for the future we know no one simply as a man. Even if we have known Christ as a man, yet now we do so no longer.

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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
The High Priests, however, and the Elders urged the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to demand the death of Jesus.

The contempt

2 Corinthians 5:16
Therefore for the future we know no one simply as a man. Even if we have known Christ as a man, yet now we do so no longer.