Luke 23:16
Therefore I will have him flogged and then release him.”
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
I will therefore chastise him, and release him.
In Context
15and neither has Herod, for I sent you to him. Clearly he has done nothing that deserves death.
17Now each year at the feast Pilate was obligated to release one prisoner for the people.
Cross References
Mark 15:15Then Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas. But he scourged Jesus and handed him over to be crucified.
John 19:1Then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him.
Acts 16:37But Paul said to them, “They beat us in public without a trial, even though we are Roman citizens, and they threw us into prison. And now they are sending us away secretly? Certainly not! Rather, let them come and escort us out themselves.”
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 →