Luke 23:16

16 I will therfore chasten him and let him lowsse.

Luke 23:16 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 23:16

I will therefore chastise him
Give him some correction, as by scourging, or beating with rods: this he proposed, not because he thought him deserving of it, but in complaisance to the Jews; since it would look as if their charges were not altogether weak and groundless; and that Jesus was not entirely innocent: this would carry a show of guilt and punishment, and he hoped this might be thought sufficient, and so he should please them, and save Jesus from dying, which he much desired: and release him; from his bonds, and let him go.

Luke 23:16 In-Context

14 and sayde vnto them: Ye have brought this man vnto me as one that perverted the people. And beholde I have examined him before you and have founde no faute in this man of those thinges where of ye accuse him

15 No nor yet Herode. For I sent you to him: and lo no thinge worthy of deeth is done to him.

16 I will therfore chasten him and let him lowsse.

17 For of necessite he must have let one lowse vnto them at that feast.

18 And all the people cryed at once sayinge: awaye with him and delyvre to vs Barrabas: