John 18:39 (WEB)
But you have a custom that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore, do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”
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Augustine of Hippo
Of the Absence of Any Discrepancies in the Accounts Which the Evangelists Give of What Took Place in Pilate’s Presence. Chapter VIII.—Of the Absence of Any Discrepancies in the Accounts Which the Evangelists Give of…
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John Chrysostom
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Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
After Pilate had asked, What is truth? he remembered a custom of the Jews, of releasing one prisoner at the passover, and did not wait for Christ’s answer, for fear of losing this chance of saving Him, which he much…
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He knew that this question required time to answer, and it was necessary immediately to rescue Him from the fury of the Jews. So he went out.
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Or, he did not wait to hear the reply, because he was unworthy to hear it. And saith unto them, I find no fault in Him.
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He did not say, He has sinned and is worthy of death; yet release Him at the feast; but acquitting Him in the first place, he does more than he need do, and asks it as a favour, that, if they are unwilling to let Him…
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This custom was not commanded in the law, but had been handed down by tradition from the old fathers, viz. that in remembrance of their deliverance out of Egypt, they should release a prisoner at the passover. Pilate…
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He could not dismiss the idea from his mind, that Jesus was King of the Jews; as if the Truth itself, whom he had just asked what it was, had inscribed it there as a title.
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Pilate is judicious in replying that Jesus had done nothing wrong, and that there was no reason to suspect Him of aiming at a kingdom. For they might be sure that if He set Himself up as a King, and a rival of the…
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Upon this they cried out: Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber. We blame you not, O Jews, for releasing a guilty man at the passover, but for killing an innocent…
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Inasmuch then as they abandoned the Saviour, and sought out a robber, to this day the devil practises his robberies upon them.
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The name Barabbas signifies, The son of their master, i. e. the devil; his master in his wickedness, the Jews’ in their perfidy.
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Cross-references · 1
Mark 15:9 and John 18:39 share the same wording (13 words).