Luke 24:20

20 and how our High Priests and Rulers delivered Him up to be sentenced to death, and crucified Him.

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 Then one of them, named Cleopas, answered, "Are you a stranger lodging alone in Jerusalem, that you have known nothing of the things that have lately happened in the city?"

19 "What things?" He asked. "The things about Jesus the Nazarene," they said, "who was a Prophet powerful in work and word before God and all the people;

20 and how our High Priests and Rulers delivered Him up to be sentenced to death, and crucified Him.

21 But we were hoping that it was He who was about to ransom Israel. Yes, and moreover it was the day before yesterday that these things happened.

22 And, besides, some of the women of our company have amazed us. They went to the tomb at daybreak,