18And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:
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But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
For the multitude of the people followed after, crying, Away with him.
And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
But 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? …
Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-25)We have here the blessed Jesus run down by the mob, and hurried to the cross in the storm of a popular noise and tumult, raised by the malice and artifice of the chief priests , as agents for the prince of the power of the air. I. Pilate solemnly protests that he believes he has done nothing worthy of death or of bonds. And, if he did believe so, he ought immediately to have discharged him, and no…
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