SCRIPTURE COMMENTARY #546
Then they led Jesus from Caiphas to the governor's hall. And it was morning: and they went not into the hall, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the pasch. (John 18:28)
THE HYPOCRISY OF THE PHARISEES: The chief priests and ancients pretended that it was against their conscience to enter the house of the Gentile governor, but it did not give their false consciences even a qualm to accuse Jesus wrongfully, or to demand the death of One who was innocent. They guarded against any exterior defilement, but it never occurred to them to cleanse their hearts from hatred, envy and bloodthirstiness. We see how just was our Lord's denunciation of the Pharisees: "Woe to you . . who leave judgment and mercy and faith." Those Christians who are outwardly pious, but who nurse hatred and enmity in their hearts, are very like the Pharisees!
[From 'A Practical Commentary on Holy Scripture' by Bishop Knecht, D.D.]
(1899 Douay-Rheims Bible)
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