Luke 23:20

And Pilate, being disposed to release Jesus, conversed with them again.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them.

In Context

19He was one who had been thrown into prison, on account of a sedition and murder which had occurred in the city.

21But they cried out, and said: Crucify him; crucify him.

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Cross References

Matthew 14:8And she, as she had been instructed by her mother, said: Give me here in a dish the head of John the Baptizer.

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.

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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