Luke 23:20

Webster's Bible (1833)

Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Jesus,

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  • Matt 14:8-9 : 8 She, being prompted by her mother, said, "Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptizer." 9 The king was grieved, but for the sake of his oaths, and of those who sat at the table with him, he commanded it to be given,
  • Matt 27:19 : 19 While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, "Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him."
  • Mark 15:15 : 15 Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.
  • John 19:12 : 12 At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you release this man, you aren't Caesar's friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!"

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  • Luke 23:21-25
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    21but they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify him!"

    22He said to them the third time, "Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him."

    23But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.

    24Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done.

    25He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will.

  • Mark 15:8-9
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    8The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them.

    9Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

  • Mark 15:11-15
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    11But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should release Barabbas to them instead.

    12Pilate again asked them, "What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?"

    13They cried out again, "Crucify him!"

    14Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, "Crucify him!"

    15Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.

  • Matt 27:15-17
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    15Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release to the multitude one prisoner, whom they desired.

    16They had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.

    17When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ?"

  • Matt 27:20-24
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    20Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.

    21But the governor answered them, "Which of the two do you want me to release to you?" They said, "Barabbas!"

    22Pilate said to them, "What then shall I do to Jesus, who is called Christ?" They all said to him, "Let him be crucified!"

    23But the governor said, "Why? What evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, saying, "Let him be crucified!"

    24So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it."

  • Mark 15:4-6
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    4Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!"

    5But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled.

    6Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whom they asked of him.

  • John 19:12-13
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    12At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you release this man, you aren't Caesar's friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!"

    13When Pilate therefore heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called "The Pavement," but in Hebrew, "Gabbatha."

  • John 18:38-39
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    38Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" When he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, "I find no basis for a charge against him.

    39But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

  • Luke 23:16-19
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    16I will therefore chastise him and release him."

    17Now he had to release one prisoner to them at the feast.

    18But they all cried out together, saying, "Away with this man! Release to us Barabbas!" --

    19one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder.

  • John 19:10
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    10Pilate therefore said to him, "Aren't you speaking to me? Don't you know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?"

  • Luke 23:13-14
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    13Pilate called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,

    14and said to them, "You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and see, I have examined him before you, and found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him.

  • John 18:29
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    29Pilate therefore went out to them, and said, "What accusation do you bring against this man?"

  • Matt 27:26
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    26Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified.

  • Luke 23:3-4
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    3Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered him, "So you say."

    4Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, "I find no basis for a charge against this man."

  • John 19:4-6
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    4Then Pilate went out again, and said to them, "Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no basis for a charge against him."

    5Jesus therefore came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said to them, "Behold, the man!"

    6When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they shouted, saying, "Crucify! Crucify!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and crucify him, for I find no basis for a charge against him."

  • John 19:16
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    16So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.

  • Luke 23:1
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    1The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate.

  • Matt 27:2
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    2and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

  • John 18:31-33
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    31Pilate therefore said to them, "Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law." Therefore the Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death,"

    32that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.

    33Pilate therefore entered again into the Praetorium, called Jesus, and said to him, "Are you the King of the Jews?"

  • Luke 23:6
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    6But when Pilate heard Galilee mentioned, he asked if the man was a Galilean.

  • John 19:21
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    21The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Don't write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'he said, I am King of the Jews.'"

  • John 19:8
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    8When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.