Luke 23:25

And he let loose vnto them him that for insurrection and murder was cast into prison, whome they desired, and deliuered Iesus to doe with him what they would.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.

In Context

24So Pilate gaue sentence, that it should be as they required.

26And as they led him away, they caught one Simon of Cyrene, comming out of the fielde, and on him they layde the crosse, to beare it after Iesus.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 12:13Nowe therefore beholde the King whome yee haue chosen, and whome yee haue desired: loe therefore, the Lord hath set a King ouer you.

Matthew 27:26Thus let he Barabbas loose vnto them, and scourged Iesus, and deliuered him to be crucified.

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.

Luke 23:5But they were the more fierce, saying, He moueth the people, teaching throughout all Iudea, beginning at Galile, euen to this place.

Acts 3:14But ye denied the Holy one and the Iust, and desired a murtherer to be giuen you,

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 →

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