Lucas 23:4-19 NVIPT

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:10

And the chief priests and Scribes ,.... The sanhedrim that followed him from Pilate's hall, to Herod's palace; fearing, lest Herod should be disposed to let him go, should he gratify him by working a miracle: stood ; before Herod; so witnesses, and accusers, used to do; See Gill on Mark 14:57 . and vehemently accused him ; of the same things they had accused him before Pilate, with great bitterness and constancy, increasing, and aggravating the charges against him. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:11

And Herod, with his men of war ,.... Or his soldiers, his bodyguards that attended his person, who came with him from Galilee, and were both for his security and service, and for his pomp and magnificence: set him at nought ; made nothing of him; had him in no account; treated him as a silly, and contemptible creature, that could not do any thing that was reported of him; nor able to say any thing for himself; but took him to be a mere fool and idiot; and so they used him: and mocked... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:12

And the same day Pilate and Herod were made friends together ,.... For it pleased Herod, that Pilate should show such a regard to his authority and power, as to send one that belonged to his jurisdiction to take cognizance of his case; and especially as it was a person that was much talked of, and he had long wanted to see; and Pilate, on the other hand, was pleased with Herod, that though he was one that was under his jurisdiction, and so had a right of trying the cause, and either absolve... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:13

And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests ,.... That is, after Herod had sent back Christ unto him, he then summoned the chief priests together, to consider what should be done to him: and with them also, the rulers and the people ; both the civil and ecclesiastical rulers, and the chief among the people, who had been forward in accusing Jesus, and seeking his death: the latter of these is not read in the Persic version; and both are joined together in the Syriac and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:14

Said unto them, ye have brought this man unto me ,.... Pointing to Jesus, who stood before him; as one that perverteth the people ; from their religion, and laws, and allegiance to Caesar. The Syriac and Persic versions read, "your people"; of the same nation with them, and that were under their care and jurisdiction; at least in an ecclesiastical way: and behold, I having examined him before you ; not only privately, and alone, between themselves in the judgment hall, John 18:33 ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:15

No, nor yet Herod ,.... Who was a Jew, and better versed in their religious affairs, and understood the nature of such charges, and the amount of them, and what was sufficient proof in such cases; and who had also examined Jesus, and that in their presence, and had heard all that they had to accuse him with, and yet found no fault in him of any such kind, as to condemn him to death for it: for I sent you to him ; along with Jesus, to make your allegations against him good before him; or,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible 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: ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible 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", &c.; not at each feast, or every feast, as the last of these versions read, only at the passover, as... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible 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 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:19

Who, for a certain sedition made in the city ,.... Of Jerusalem: he had made an insurrection in it, in opposition to the government, in order to have thrown off the yoke, and to have asserted and maintained their liberties, as a free people; or rather to have seized and plundered the properties of other people, since he is represented elsewhere as a robber: and for murder ; which had either been committed by himself, or his accomplices, in the insurrection; and for these things,... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Luke 23:19

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