Luke 23:16

And therefore I shall amend him, and deliver him. [+Therefore I shall leave him amended, or deliver him chastised.] (And so I shall chastise him, and then let him go.)

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In The King James Version

I will therefore chastise him, and release him.

In Context

15neither (did) Herod, for he hath sent him again to us, and lo! nothing worthy of death is done to him. (nor did Herod, for he hath sent him back to us, and behold! nothing worthy of death hath been done by him.)

17But he must needs deliver to them one by the feast day. [Forsooth he had need to deliver to them one by the feast day.] (But he had to release one prisoner to them on the Feast Day, or at the Festival.)

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Cross References

Isaiah 53:5Forsooth he was wounded for our wickednesses, he was defouled for our great trespasses; the learning of our peace was on him, and we be made whole by his wanness. (And he was wounded for our wickednesses, he was defiled for our great trespasses; he suffered what should have been our chastising, or our punishment, and we be healed, or made whole, by his scourgings.)

Mark 15:15And Pilate, willing to make satisfaction to the people, (or desiring to fulfill the will of the people), left to them Barabbas, (or let go, or released, Barabbas to them), and he betook to them Jesus, beaten with scourges, to be crucified.

John 19:1Therefore Pilate took then Jesus, and scourged him. [+Therefore then Pilate took Jesus, and scourged him.]

Acts 16:37And Paul said to them, They sent us men of Rome into prison, that were beaten openly and uncondemned, and now privily they bring us out; not so (fast), but come they themselves, and deliver us out, (or no! let them come here themselves, and release us).

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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