Luke 23:20
And Pilate spake unto them again, desiring to release Jesus;
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them.
In Context
19one who for a certain insurrection made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.
21but they shouted, saying, Crucify, crucify him.
Cross References
Matthew 14:8And she, being put forward by her mother, saith, Give me here in a charger the head of John the Baptist.
Mark 15:15And Pilate, wishing to content the multitude, released unto them Barabbas, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, 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 →