Luke 23:18

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

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 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:

19 which for insurrccion made in the cite and morther was cast into preson

20 Pylate spake agayne to them willynge to let Iesus lowse.