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?
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Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would. …
I will therefore chastise him, and release him. …
Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired. …
But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus. …
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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…
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