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Luke 23:17-19
Contemporary English Version
Luke 23:17-19
Contemporary English Version
16-17 I will just have him beaten with a whip and set free.”[a]
18 But the whole crowd shouted, “Kill Jesus! Give us Barabbas!” 19 Now Barabbas was in jail because he had started a riot in the city and had murdered someone.
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- 23.16,17 set free: Some manuscripts add, “Pilate said this, because at every Passover he was supposed to set one prisoner free for the Jewish people.”
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