Luke 23:20
Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them.
King James Version
In Context
19(Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.)
21But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him.
Cross References
Matthew 14:8And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist’s head in a charger.
Mark 15:15And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered 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 →