John 18:39

Ye have a custome that I shuld delyver you one lowsse at ester. Will ye that I lowse vnto you the kynge of the Iewes.

Tyndale New Testament

In The King James Version

But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?

In Context

38Pilate sayde vnto him: what thinge is trueth? And when he had sayd that he went out agayne vnto the Iewes and sayde vnto them: I fynde in him no cause at all.

40Then cryed they all agayne sayinge: Not him but Barrabas that Barrabas was a robber.

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Cross References

Matthew 27:15At that feest the debite was wonte to deliver vnto the people a presoner whom they wolde desyer.

Mark 15:6At that feast Pilate was wont to delivre at their pleasure a presoner: whomsoever they wolde desyre.

Luke 23:17For of necessite he must have let one lowse vnto them at that feast.

Matthew Henry on John 18:29-40

Christ in the Judgment-Hall; Christ Arraigned before Pilate. 28 Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover. 29 Pilate then went out unto them, and said, What accusation bring ye against this man? 30 They answered and said unto him, If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto thee. 31 Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him… Read the whole commentary →

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