Bede the Venerable, on John 19:6

“When the chief priests, therefore, and the servants, had seen him, they cried out, saying: Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate saith to them: Take him you, and crucify him: for I find no cause in him.”

“It was not the law that he was afraid of, as he was a stranger: but he was more afraid, lest he should slay the Son of God.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.