Luke 23:18
And all the people cryed at once sayinge: awaye with him and delyvre to vs Barrabas:
Tyndale New Testament
In The King James Version
And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:
In Context
17For of necessite he must have let one lowse vnto them at that feast.
19which for insurreccion made in the cite and morther was cast into preson.
Cross References
Matthew 27:15At that feest the debite was wonte to deliver vnto the people a presoner whom they wolde desyer.
John 18:39Ye have a custome that I shuld delyver you one lowsse at ester. Will ye that I lowse vnto you the kynge of the Iewes.
Acts 3:14But ye denyed the holy and iust and desyred a mortherar to be geven you
Acts 22:22They gave him audience vnto this worde and then lifte vp their voyces and sayde: a waye with soche a felowe from the erth: that is pitie that he shuld live.
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 →