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Mt 27:13 King James Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?

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Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
They witness against thee - This means, rather, that they accused him. They were not "witnesses," but accusers. These accusations were repeated and pressed. They charged him with exciting the people, teaching throughout, all Judea from Galilee to Jerusalem, and exciting the nation to sedition, Luk 23:5.
 
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5 And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.