John 18:39

But every year you make a request to me to let a prisoner go free at the Passover. Is it your desire that I let the King of the Jews go free?

Bible in Basic English

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, True? what is true? Having said this he went out again to the Jews and said to them, I see no wrong in him.

40Then again they gave a loud cry, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was an outlaw.

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Cross References

Matthew 27:15Now at the feast it was the way for the ruler to let free to the people one prisoner, at their selection.

Mark 15:6Now at the feast every year he let one prisoner go free at their request.

Luke 23:17[]

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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