Luke 23:24

and Pilate gave judgment for their request being done,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.

In Context

23And they were pressing with loud voices asking Him to be crucified, and their voices, and those of the chief priests, were prevailing,

25and he released him who because of sedition and murder has been cast into the prison, whom they were asking for, and he gave up Jesus to their will.

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Cross References

Proverbs 17:15Whoever is justifying the wicked, || And condemning the righteous, || Even both of these [are] an abomination to YHWH.

Mark 15:15And Pilate, resolving to do that which [was] satisfactory to the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and delivered up Jesus—having scourged [Him]—that He might 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 →

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