John Trapp on Matthew 27:2

Verse 2. And when they had bound him] Bound he had been before this (to loose the cords of our iniquities:) but belike they had loosed him again, to try if by fair means they could make [non-Latin text not transcribed]. him belye himself. So those Martyrs were tempted, Heb. 11. 37. And this was Iulians way of persecuting the Primitive Christians, as Nazianzen testifieth: persecutioni suae miscuit persuasionem; Nazianzen. ideo que fuit superioribus nocentior, & perniciosior. So Bonner, after he had allowed William Hunter Martyr, an half-peny a day in bread and drink in prison, perswaded with him saying: If thou wilt recant I will make thee a freeman in the city, and Act. and Mon. sol 1397. give thee fourty pounds in good mony, to set up thine occupation Ibid 1386. withall: or I will make thee steward of mine house, and set thee in office. So, to reduce D. Taylor Martyr, they promised him not only his pardon, but a bishoprick.