Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
Parallel translations
- WEB Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified.
- BSB So Pilate released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed Him over to be crucified.
- NKJV Then he released Barabbas to them; and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered Him to be crucified.
- NASB Then he released Barabbas for them; but after having Jesus flogged, he handed Him over to be crucified.
- NLT So Pilate released Barabbas to them. He ordered Jesus flogged with a lead-tipped whip, then turned him over to the Roman soldiers to be crucified.
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Pilate frees Barabbas, has Jesus flogged, and hands Him over for crucifixion. The great exchange is now set in motion.
Overview
Pilate releases the guilty Barabbas and consigns the innocent Jesus to scourging and the cross. The brutal Roman flogging that preceded crucifixion fulfilled Isaiah's words that by His stripes we are healed. In this exchange the gospel is vividly pictured: the guilty go free because the sinless Substitute bears the punishment.
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- Isa 53:5But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
- John 19:1Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.
- Mark 15:15And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.
- Isa 50:6I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
- Luke 23:16I will therefore chastise him, and release him.
- 1 Pet 2:24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
- Mark 10:34And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.
- Luke 23:24–25And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.
- Matt 20:19And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again.
- John 19:16Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.
- Luke 18:32–33For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on:
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