SCRIPTURE COMMENTARY #524
The high priest therefore asked Jesus of his disciples and of his doctrine. Jesus answered him: "I have spoken openly to the world. I have always taught in the synagogue and in the temple, whither all the Jews resort: and in secret I have spoken nothing. Why askest thou me? Ask them who have heard what I have spoken unto them. Behold they know what things I have said." And when he had said these things, one of the servants standing by gave Jesus a blow, saying: "Answerest thou the high priest so?" Jesus answered him: "If I have spoken evil, give testimony of the evil; but if well, why strikest thou me?" (John 18:19-23)
SHARING THE GUILT OF THE SINS OF OTHERS: Annas sinned in this way by not punishing, nor even blaming, his servant for his unjust and illegal treatment of Jesus.
[From 'A Practical Commentary on Holy Scripture' by Bishop Knecht, D.D.]
(1899 Douay-Rheims Bible)
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