Luke 23:24

So Pilate gave sentence what they wished should be done.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.

In Context

23But they kept shouting the more insistently, demanding that he should be crucified, and their shouts won the day.

25He released the man who had been put in prison for riot and murder, the man whom they asked for; but Jesus he handed over to their will.

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Cross References

Mark 15:15So Pilate, who wished to make himself strong with the crowd, released Barabbas to them, and gave Jesus over for crucifixion, after he had scourged him.

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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