Luke 23:19
--Barabbas! who had been lodged in jail for some time in connection with a riot which had occurred in the city, and for murder.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
(Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.)
In Context
20But Pilate once more addressed them, wishing to set Jesus free.
Cross References
Luke 23:5But they violently insisted. "He stirs up the people," they said, "throughout all Judaea with His teaching--even from Galilee (where He first started) to this city."
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 →