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Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)

Luke 23:17-25

Luke 23:17-25. The account before us is brief, introducing scarcely any new features. Luke 23:17, while supported by some authorities, is to be omitted.

Away with this man is virtually a demand for execution.

Prevailed (Luke 23:23), gained the mastery, i.e., over Pilate.

Gave sentence. Final and official sentence. Luke passes over the scourging and crowning with thorns, the presentation to the people (Ecce Homo), the final effort to release our Lord, the washing of Pilate's hands, and the final taunt made by the governor with our Lord (John 19:13-16), presenting the contrast between Barabbas and Jesus in brief and telling words (Luke 23:25).

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  • A Textual Commentary On The Greek New Testament by Bruce M. Metzger

    LUKE 23:17 _omit verse_ {A} The secondary character of the verse is disclosed not only by its omission from such early witnesses as î75 A B L T 070 892* 1241 ita copsa _al,_ but also by its insertion...

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Luke 23:17. _FOR OF NECESSITY HE MUST RELEASE ONE_] That is, _he was_ _under the necessity_ of releasing one at this feast. The custom, however it originated, had now been so completely establi...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    See the notes at Matthew 27:15....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 23 _ 1. The son of man before Pilate and Herod. (Luke 23:1)_ 2. Pilate Yields to the People's Will; Barabbas Freed and the Son of man Condemned. (Luke 23:13) 3. The Crucifixion of the Son Of...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    TRIAL BEFORE PILATE AND SILENCE BEFORE HEROD (Luke 23:1-12)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    Pilate summoned the chief priests and the rulers and the people, and said to them, "You brought me this man as one who was seducing the people from their allegiance; and--look you--I have examined him...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    AT. Greek. _kata._ App-104. THE. a. Most texts omit this verse....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _For of necessity_, &c. Rather, But. The whole verse, however, is of dubious genuineness, and may have come from a marginal gloss. It is omitted in A, B, K, L. In D it is placed after Luke 23:19. The...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    THE TRIAL BEFORE HEROD. FURTHER ENDEAVOURS OF PILATE TO PROCURE HIS ACQUITTAL. THE CHOICE OF BARABBAS. THE CONDEMNATION TO THE CROSS...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    17. [ἈΝΆΓΚΗΝ ΔῈ ΕἾΧΕΝ�]. This verse is wanting in ABKL, and the Coptic, Sahidic versions &c. In D, the Aethiopic and the Curetonian Syriac it is placed after Luke 23:19. 17. For the verse in our A.V[4...

  • Catena Aurea Commentary

    Ver 13. And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people, 14. Said to them, you have brought this man to me, as one that perverts the people: and, behold, I, hav...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1583 BARABBAS SPARED, AND CHRIST CONDEMNED Luke 23:13. And Pilate, when he had called together the chief-priests and the rulers and the people, said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR OF NECESSITY HE MUST RELEASE ONE— See on Matthew 27:15 and Mark 15:6....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Second Trial Before Pilate Scripture_ Luke 23:13-25 And Pilate called together the Chief Priest and the rulers, and the people, 14 and said unto them, Ye brought unto me thi...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Indicted (Luke 23:1-25) 23 Then the whole company of them arose, and brought him before Pilate. 2And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this man perverting our na...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people, For the exposition see the notes at ; For the exposition, see the notes at John 18:38;...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    1-5 Compare Mat_27:1-14; Mar_15:2-5 : Joh_18:28-38. 1 The trial now takes on a new character. It passes from the religious to the political phase. It would be quite useless to bring the Sanhedrin's f...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    FOR OF NECESSITY HE MUST RELEASE ONE UNTO THEM. — Literally, _he had a necessity._ The better MSS. are singularly divided as to this verse. Most omit it altogether. One, followed by some of the versio...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    Luke 23:17, which states that Pilate was under a necessity (why, not explained) to release one (prisoner) at feast time, is almost certainly imported from the parallels by a later hand, though it fill...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _Pilate finally succumbs_ (Matthew 27:15-26; Mark 15:6-15)....

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This is the story of the Cross, and, as in dealing with other Gospels, it is best read in reverent quietness and meditation. We see all the forces of evil as represented in the Jewish priests and in P...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

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  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    2 _d. The Civil Judgment: Luke 23:1-25_. Here we have the description, on the one hand, of the series of manoeuvres used by the Jews to obtain from Pilate the execution of the sentence, and on the oth...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    Not having succeeded in this way, Pilate finds himself reduced to seek another expedient. Two present themselves to his mind: first, the offer to chastise Jesus, that is to say, to scourge Him; then t...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    "And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people, (14) Said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, havi...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The last chapter gave in the judgment of present things, another world and eternal things in good and evil, the Lord's instruction for the disciples after the dealings of grace in Luke 15:1-32, and th...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The Gentiles, however, are not presented in this Gospel as being voluntarily guilty. We see, no doubt, an indifference which is flagrant injustice in a case like this, and an insolence which nothing c...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    (For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.) Ver. 17. _For of necessity_] _Tyrannus ille trium literarum Mos, _ would needs have it so. SeeJohn 18:29; Matthew 27:15 ....

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    (FOR OF NECESSITY HE MUST RELEASE ONE UNTO THEM AT THE FEAST.)...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

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  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SEE POOLE ON "LUKE 23:1...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Luke 23:17 for G1161 necessary G318 G2192 (G5707) release G630 (G5721) one G1520 them G846 at...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

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  • Summarized Bible Commentary

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  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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  • The Bible Study New Testament

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  • The Gospels Compared

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  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

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  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    John 18:39; Mark 15:6; Matthew 27:15...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

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