Luke 23:20

And Pilate again said to them that it was his desire to let Jesus go free.

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Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them.

In Context

19Now this man was in prison because of an attack against the government in the town, in which there had been loss of life.

21But crying out they said, To the cross with him!

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Cross References

Matthew 14:8And she, at her mother's suggestion, said, Give me here on a plate the head of John the Baptist.

Mark 15:15And Pilate, desiring to do what was pleasing to the people, let Barabbas go free, and gave up Jesus, when he had been whipped, to be put to death on the cross.

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 →

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