Luke 23:20
Again therefore Pilate called out wanting to release Jesus,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them.
In Context
21but they shouted, saying, Crucify, crucify him.
Cross References
Matthew 14:8And she, having been put forward by her mother, says, Give me here on a platter the head of John the immerser.
Mark 15:15And Pilate, wanting to do what was sufficent for the crowd, released Barabbas to them. And he delivered Jesus, after scourging, so that he might be crucified.
Matthew Henry on Luke 23:14-26
Barabbas Preferred to Christ. 13 And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people, 14 Said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him: 15 No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him; and, lo, nothing worthy of death is done unto him. 16 I will therefore chastise him, and release him. 17 (For of necessity he must release… Read the whole commentary →