Luke 23:17
For a custom had he to release to them one at the festival.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
(For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)
In Context
16I will therefore chastise him, and dismiss him.
18But all the multitude cried out, saying, Take this, and release to us Baraba;
Cross References
Mark 15:6But he was accustomed at every festival to release to them of the bound one whom they requested;
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 →