Luke 23:17

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Luke 23:17 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 23:17

For of necessity he must release one
And therefore proposed to release Jesus

unto them at the feast;
of passover, which now was; not that there was any law that obliged to it, but it having been customary with the Roman governor to do so, the people expected it; custom had made it necessary: and so the Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions render it, "it was a custom to release" not at each feast, or every feast, as the last of these versions read, only at the passover, as is expressed, ( John 18:39 ) .

Luke 23:17 In-Context

15 neither did Herod, for he sent him back to us. Behold, nothing deserving death has been done by him;

16 I will therefore chastise him and release him."

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18 But they all cried out together, "Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas"--

19 a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city, and for murder