John 18:39 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁹But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?

John 18:39 —

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Cross-References

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Matthew 27:15-18
Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would. …
Luke 23:16-23
I will therefore chastise him, and release him. …
Mark 15:6-14
Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired. …
Matthew 27:20-23
But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus. …

Topics

Arrest Corruption Demagogism Imprisonment Influence Jesus, the Christ Opinion, Public Pilate, Pontius

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 28-40)

We have here an account of Christ’s arraignment before Pilate, the Roman governor, in the praetorium (a Latin word made Greek), the praetor’s house, or hall of judgment; thither they hurried him, to get him condemned in the Roman court, and executed by the Roman power. Being resolved on his death, they took this course, 1. That he might be put to death the more legally and regularly, according to…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 39)

39. But ye have a custom that I should release one unto you at the passover, &c.--See on Mr 15:7-11. “On the typical import of the choice of Christ to suffer, by which Barabbas was set free, see the sixteenth chapter of Leviticus, particularly Le 16:5-10, where the subject is the sin offering on the great day of atonement” [Krafft in Luthardt].