Matthew 27:17
Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto them, Whom will ye that I release unto you? Barabbas, or Jesus which is called Christ?
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Gill's Exposition
Therefore when they were gathered together,.... Meaning not the chief priests and elders; for these were together before, but the common people; and so the Persic version renders the words, when the…
See also the parallel places in Mar 15:6-14; Luk 23:17-23; Joh 18:39-40. Mat 27:15 At that feast - The feast of the Passover. The governor was wont to release ... - that is, was “accustomed” to…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Therefore when they were gathered together In accordance, probably, with the custom named, Mat 27:27, an appeal was made to the people, not to the Sanhedrin. Pilate was sitting on the tribunal to…
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