Luke 23:20
And Pilate again spoke to them, desiring to release Jesus.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them.
In Context
19Who, for a certain sedition made in the city, and for a murder, was cast into prison.
21But they cried again, saying: Crucify him, crucify him.
Cross References
Matthew 14:8But she being instructed before by her mother, said: Give me here in a dish the head of John the Baptist.
Mark 15:15And so Pilate being willing to satisfy the people, released to them Barabbas, and delivered up Jesus, when he had scourged him, to 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 →