Luke 23:16
I will therefore chastise him, and release him.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
I will therefore chastise him, and release him.
In Context
15Neither yet Herod: for I sent him to him, and lo, nothing deserving death hath been done by him.
17For it was a custom, that he should release one at the festival.
Cross References
Mark 15:15And Pilate was willing to gratify the wishes of the multitudes; and he released to them Bar Abas; and, having scourged Jesus, he delivered him to them to be crucified.
John 19:1Then Pilate scourged Jesus.
Acts 16:37But Paul said to him: They have scourged us, unoffending men, and Romans, before all the world, and have cast us into prison; and now, do they secretly let us out? No, surely: but let them come themselves and bring us 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 →