John Trapp on Matthew 27:23

Verse 23. Why? What evil hath he done?] Why? but if he have done no evil, wherefore doth not Pilate pronounce him innocent coutra gentes? And quit him by proclamation? which because he did not, but the contrary, was he not therefore, by a just judgement of God upon him, kickt off the bench, by the Emperour Tiberius? Judge Hales came to an evil end for crossingAct. and Mon. Englands Eliz. his conscience. And Judge Morgan, who gave the sentence of that peerlesse Lady [illegible: 1 word] Graies death, presently fell mad: and in all his distracted fits, cried out continually, Take away the Lady [illegible: 1 word], Take away the Lady Iane from me. It is reported of Nevessan, a better Lawyer then an honest man, that he should say: He that will not venture his body shall never be valiant: he that will not venture his soul, never rich.