Luke 23:25
And he delivered to them him, that for manslaying (or for murder) and sedition was sent into prison, (for) whom they (had) asked; but he betook Jesus to their will (or but he delivered Jesus unto their will).
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
In Context
24And (then) Pilate deemed their asking to be done.
Cross References
1 Samuel 12:13Now therefore your king is ready, whom ye have chosen and asked (for); lo! the Lord hath given to you a king, (or behold! the Lord hath given you a king).
Matthew 27:26Then he delivered, [or he left (or he let go)], to them Barabbas, but he [be] took to them Jesus scourged, to be crucified. (Then he released, or he let go, Barabbas to them, but he delivered Jesus unto them, after that he had been scourged, to be crucified.)
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.
Luke 23:5And they waxed stronger (or And they grew stronger and more insistent), and said, He moveth the people, teaching through all Judea, beginning from Galilee till hither.
Acts 3:14But ye denied the holy and the rightful ( man), [or Ye forsooth denied the holy and just man], and asked (for) a manslayer to be given to you. (But ye rejected this holy and just man, and asked for a murderer to be given to you.)
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 →