KJV King James Version
Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered [him] to be crucified.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Matthew 27:26
Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered [him] to be crucified.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
So Pilate released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed Him over to be crucified.
WEB World English Bible
Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified.
ASV American Standard Version
Then released he unto them Barabbas; but Jesus he scourged and delivered to be crucified.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Then did he release to them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, he delivered him up that he may be crucified;
Surrounding context — Matthew 27
23 And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.
24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but [that] rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed [his] hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye [to it].
25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood [be] on us, and on our children.
26 Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered [him] to be crucified.
27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band [of soldiers].
28 And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.
29 And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put [it] upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
τότεG5119 · totethenἀπέλυσενG630 · apoluōto release: releaseαὐτοῖςG846 · autosit/s/heτὸνG3588 · hothe/this/whoΒαραββᾶν·G912 · BarabbasBarabbasτὸνG3588 · hothe/this/whoδὲG1161 · dethenἸησοῦνG2424 · IēsousJesusφραγελλώσαςG5417 · phragelloōto whipπαρέδωκενG3860 · paradidōmito deliverἵναG2443 · hinain order that/toσταυρωθῇ.¶G4717 · stauroōto crucify
Cross-references
Isaiah 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.Isaiah 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 Peter 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.Matthew 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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