Luke 23:16
I will therefore chastise him, and let him loose.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
I will therefore chastise him, and release him.
In Context
15No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him: and loe, nothing worthy of death is done of him.
17(For of necessitie hee must haue let one loose vnto them at the feast.)
Cross References
Isaiah 53:5But hee was wounded for our transgressions, hee was broken for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was vpon him, and with his stripes we are healed.
Mark 15:15So Pilate willing to content the people, loosed them Barabbas, and deliuered Iesus, when he had scourged him, that he might be crucified.
John 19:1Then Pilate tooke Iesus and scourged him.
Acts 16:37Then sayde Paul vnto them, After that they haue beaten vs openly vncodemned, which are Romanes, they haue cast vs into prison, and nowe would they put vs out priuily? nay verely: but let them come and bring vs out.
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 →