Luke 23:18
But all the multitude cried out, saying, Take this, and release to us Baraba;
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
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 a custom had he to release to them one at the festival.
Cross References
Matthew 27:15Now at every festival the governor was accustomed to release one of the bound unto the people, whomsoever they would.
John 18:39But 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?
Acts 3:14but you the Holy and the Just denied, and demanded for you the man the murderer to be given to you.
Acts 22:22And when they had heard Paulos until this word, they lifted up their voice, and cried, Take from the earth one like this; for he ought not to 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 →