Luke 24:20

20 Our head cohanim and our leaders handed him over, so that he could be sentenced to death and executed on a stake as a criminal.

Luke 24:20 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 24:20

And how the chief priests and our rulers
Civil and ecclesiastic:

delivered him;
to Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor:

to be condemned to death;
the death of the cross, by the said governor, having first seized him and examined him before their sanhedrim, and pronounced him guilty of death:

and have crucified him;
for though Pilate passed the sentence, and the Roman soldiers executed it, yet these men are said to do it, because it was at their request, and through their instigation, that it was done; hence Peter charges the Jewish sanhedrim with it, ( Acts 4:10 ) .

Luke 24:20 In-Context

18 and one of them, named Cleopas, answered him, "Are you the only person staying in Yerushalayim that doesn't know the things that have been going on there the last few days?"

19 "What things?" he asked them. They said to him, "The things about Yeshua from Natzeret. He was a prophet and proved it by the things he did and said before God and all the people.

20 Our head cohanim and our leaders handed him over, so that he could be sentenced to death and executed on a stake as a criminal.

21 And we had hoped that he would be the one to liberate Isra'el! Besides all that, today is the third day since these things happened;

22 and this morning, some of the women astounded us. They were at the tomb early