John 18:39

But you have a custom, that I release to you one during the passover. Are you willing, then, that I should release to you the king of the Jews?

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?

In Context

38Pilate said to him: What is truth? And when he had said this, he again came out to the Jews, and said to them: I find no fault in him.

40They all, then, cried out, saying: Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.

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Cross References

Matthew 27:15Now at the feast, the governor was in the habit of releasing to the multitude one prisoner, whom they chose.

Mark 15:6Now it was his custom to release to them, at the feast, one prisoner, whomever they desired.

Luke 23:17For it was necessary that he should release to them one at the feast.

Matthew Henry on John 18:29-40

Christ in the Judgment-Hall; Christ Arraigned before Pilate. 28 Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover. 29 Pilate then went out unto them, and said, What accusation bring ye against this man? 30 They answered and said unto him, If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto thee. 31 Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him… Read the whole commentary →

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