Jeremiah 26:16

16. The princes and all the people The action of these magistrates was worthy of better times. Jeremiah’s simple and heroic words are rightly seen to indicate the true prophet; and so they refuse the popular clamour for his blood. This decision commands the approval of the people, showing that not all had a positive temper against him; but, on the contrary, many were open to feel the force and truthfulness of his words. This trial, in many particulars, answers to that other trial in which the great archetypal Prophet stood before the world’s tribunal, as represented by Pilate, and, by the resistless force of his own divine purity, compelled the verdict, “I find no fault in the man.”