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Luke 23:19

Now this man was in prison because of an attack against the government in the town, in which there had been loss of life.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Barabbas;   Complicity;   Demagogism;   Jesus, the Christ;   Opinion, Public;   Politics;   Priest;   Prison;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prisons;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Pilate or Pontius Pilate;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Crucifixion;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Exhortation;   Humiliation of Christ;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Barabbas;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Capital Punishment;   Insurrection;   Luke, Gospel of;   Prison, Prisoners;   Sedition;   Trial of Jesus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Barabbas;   Gospels, Apocryphal;   Pilate;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Barabbas ;   Insurrection ;   Murder (2);   Political Conditions;   Punishment (2);   Trial of Jesus;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Barabbas;   Insurrection;   Jesus Christ, the Arrest and Trial of;   Pilate, Pontius;   Sedition;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Barabbas;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
(He had been thrown into prison for a rebellion that had taken place in the city, and for murder.)
King James Version (1611)
Who for a certaine sedition made in the citie, and for murder, was cast in prison.
King James Version
(Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.)
English Standard Version
a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city and for murder.
New American Standard Bible
(He was one who had been thrown into prison for a revolt that took place in the city, and for murder.)
New Century Version
(Barabbas was a man who was in prison for his part in a riot in the city and for murder.)
Amplified Bible
(He was one who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection that happened in the city, and for murder.)
New American Standard Bible (1995)
(He was one who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection made in the city, and for murder.)
Legacy Standard Bible
(He had been thrown into prison for an insurrection made in the city and for murder.)
Berean Standard Bible
(Barabbas had been imprisoned for an insurrection in the city, and for murder.)
Contemporary English Version
Now Barabbas was in jail because he had started a riot in the city and had murdered someone.
Complete Jewish Bible
(He was a man who had been thrown in prison for causing a riot in the city and for murder.)
Darby Translation
who was one who, for a certain tumult which had taken place in the city, and [for] murder, had been cast into prison.
Easy-to-Read Version
(Barabbas was a man who was in jail for starting a riot in the city and for murder.)
Geneva Bible (1587)
Which for a certaine insurrection made in the citie, and murther, was cast in prison.
George Lamsa Translation
Who because of sedition and murder which had happened in the city, was cast into prison.
Good News Translation
(Barabbas had been put in prison for a riot that had taken place in the city, and for murder.)
Lexham English Bible
(who had been thrown in prison because of a certain insurrection that had taken place in the city, and for murder).
Literal Translation
(he who was thrown into prison due to some revolt and murder occurring in the city .)
American Standard Version
one who for a certain insurrection made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.
Hebrew Names Version
one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder.
International Standard Version
(This was a man who had been put in prison for a revolt that had taken place in the city and for murder.)
Etheridge Translation
he who, for insurrection and murder which had been done in the city, had been thrown into the house of the chained.
Murdock Translation
He was one who had been thrown into prison, on account of a sedition and murder which had occurred in the city.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Which for a certaine insurrection made in the citie, and for murther, was cast in pryson.
English Revised Version
one who for a certain insurrection made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.
World English Bible
one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
(Who for an insurrection made in the city, and for murder had been cast into prison.)
Weymouth's New Testament
--Barabbas! who had been lodged in jail for some time in connexion with a riot which had occurred in the city, and for murder.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
which was sent `in to prisoun for disturblyng maad in the cite, and for mansleynge.
Update Bible Version
one who for a certain insurrection made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.
Webster's Bible Translation
(Who, for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.)
New English Translation
(This was a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city, and for murder.)
New King James Version
who had been thrown into prison for a certain rebellion made in the city, and for murder.
New Living Translation
(Barabbas was in prison for taking part in an insurrection in Jerusalem against the government, and for murder.)
New Life Bible
Barabbas had killed some people and had made trouble against the leaders of the country. He had been put in prison.
New Revised Standard
(This was a man who had been put in prison for an insurrection that had taken place in the city, and for murder.)
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
who indeed, because of a certain revolt which had occurred in the city, and of murder, had been thrown into prison.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Who, for a certain sedition made in the city and for a murder, was cast into prison.
Revised Standard Version
a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city, and for murder.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
which for insurrccion made in the cite and morther was cast into preson.
Young's Literal Translation
who had been, because of a certain sedition made in the city, and murder, cast into prison.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
which for insurreccion made in the cite, and because of a murthur, was cast in to preson.
Mace New Testament (1729)
Barabbas had been imprison'd for murder in a riot he had rais'd in the city.
Simplified Cowboy Version
(Barabbas had been found guilty of rebellion and murder.)

Contextual Overview

13 And Pilate sent for the chief priests and the rulers and the people, and said to them, 14 You say that this man has been teaching the people evil things: now I, after going into the question before you, see nothing wrong in this man in connection with the things which you have said against him: 15 And Herod is of the same opinion, for he has sent him back to us; for, you see, he has done nothing for which I might put him to death. 16 And so I will give him punishment and let him go. 17 [] Brackets are used for marking additions made by later writers. 18 But with loud voices they said all together, Put this man to death, and make Barabbas free. 19 Now this man was in prison because of an attack against the government in the town, in which there had been loss of life. 20 And Pilate again said to them that it was his desire to let Jesus go free. 21 But crying out they said, To the cross with him! 22 And he said to them a third time, Why, what evil has he done? I see no reason for putting him to death: I will give him punishment and let him go.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Luke 23:2, Luke 23:5, Acts 3:14

Reciprocal: Matthew 27:16 - a Mark 15:7 - General John 18:40 - General Acts 24:5 - and a mover

Cross-References

Genesis 3:19
With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
Genesis 23:9
That he will give me the hollow in the rock named Machpelah, which is his property at the end of his field; let him give it to me for its full price as a resting-place for my dead among you.
Genesis 23:10
Now Ephron was seated among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite gave Abraham his answer in the hearing of the children of Heth, and of all those who came into his town, saying,
Genesis 47:30
But when I go to my fathers, you are to take me out of Egypt and put me to rest in their last resting-place. And he said, I will do so.
Genesis 50:13
For they took him into the land of Canaan and put him to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham got with the field, for a resting-place, from Ephron the Hittite at Mamre.
Genesis 50:25
Then Joseph made the children of Israel take an oath, saying, God will certainly give effect to his word, and you are to take my bones away from here.
Job 30:23
For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.
Ecclesiastes 12:5
And he is in fear of that which is high, and danger is in the road, and the tree is white with flower, and the least thing is a weight, and desire is at an end, because man goes to his last resting-place, and those who are sorrowing are in the streets;
Ecclesiastes 12:7
And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Who, for a certain sedition made in the city,.... Of Jerusalem: he had made an insurrection in it, in opposition to the government, in order to have thrown off the yoke, and to have asserted and maintained their liberties, as a free people; or rather to have seized and plundered the properties of other people, since he is represented elsewhere as a robber:

and for murder; which had either been committed by himself, or his accomplices, in the insurrection; and for these things, sedition, and murder, he

was cast into prison; where he lay till this feast, in order to be executed.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the notes at Matthew 27:20-23.


 
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