Luke 23:24

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

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

In Context

23And they were urgent with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified: and the voices of them, and of the chief priests prevailed.

25And he released to them him that for sedition and murder had been cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.

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Cross References

Proverbs 17:15He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.

Mark 15:15And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas to them, and having scourged Jesus, delivered 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 →

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