Luke 23:18

18 But the people shouted together, "Take this man away! Let Barabbas go free!"

Luke 23:18 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 23:18

And they cried out all at once
The chief priests, rulers, and people, not bearing to hear of a release of him, now they had got him in their hands; and enraged at the proposal, in a most clamorous way, cried out, as one man, immediately:

Saying, away with this man;
to the cross; to Calvary, the place of execution; away with him out of the world; he is not fit to live:

and release unto us Barabbas;
whose character is given in the next verse; (See Gill on Matthew 27:16).

Luke 23:18 In-Context

16 So, after I punish him, I will let him go free."

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18 But the people shouted together, "Take this man away! Let Barabbas go free!"

19 (Barabbas was a man who was in prison for his part in a riot in the city and for murder.

20 Pilate wanted to let Jesus go free and told this to the crowd.