John 18:39

But you have a custom that one I should release to you at the petscha. Will you, therefore, that I release to you this King of the Jihudoyee?

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

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

38Pilatos said to him, What is the truth? And when he had said this, he went forth again to the Jihudoyee, and said to them, I find not one cause in him.

40And they all cried and said, Not this, but Bar Aba. Now this Bar Aba was a robber.

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Cross References

Matthew 27:15Now at every festival the governor was accustomed to release one of the bound unto the people, whomsoever they would.

Mark 15:6But he was accustomed at every festival to release to them of the bound one whom they requested;

Luke 23:17For a custom had he to release to them one at the festival.

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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