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Bishop's Bible

Luke 23:19

Which for a certaine insurrection made in the citie, and for murther, was cast in pryson.

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.
Bible in Basic English
Now this man was in prison because of an attack against the government in the town, in which there had been loss of life.
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.
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 called together the hye priestes, and the rulers, and the people, 14 And said vnto them: Ye haue brought this man vnto me, as one yt peruerteth the people: and behold, I examine him before you, & finde no fault in this man of those thinges wherof ye accuse hym: 15 No, nor yet Herode: For I sent you to hym, and loe nothing worthy of death is done to hym. 16 I wyll therefore chasten hym, and let hym loose. 17 For of necessitie he must haue let one loose vnto them at the feast. 18 And all the people cryed at once, saying: Away with him, and deliuer to vs Barabbas. 19 Which for a certaine insurrection made in the citie, and for murther, was cast in pryson. 20 Pilate spake agayne to them, wyllyng to let Iesus loose. 21 But they cryed, saying: Crucifie hym, crucifie hym. 22 He sayde vnto them the thirde tyme: What euyll hath he done? I finde no cause of death in hym, I wyll therefore chasten hym, and let hym 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
In the sweatte of thy face shalt thou eate thy breade, tyll thou be turned agayne into the ground, for out of it wast thou taken: For dust thou art, and into dust shalt thou be turned agayne.
Genesis 23:9
That he may geue me the caue of Machpelah, whiche he hath in the ende of his fielde: but for as much money as it is worth shall he geue it me, for a possession to bury in amongest you.
Genesis 23:10
(For Ephron dwelleth amongest the chyldren of Heth) and Ephron the Hethite aunswered Abraham in the audience of the chyldren of Heth, and of all that went in at the gates of his citie, saying:
Genesis 47:30
But I shall sleepe with my fathers, and thou shalt cary me out of Egypt, & bury me in their buryall. And he aunswered: I wyll do as thou hast sayde.
Genesis 50:13
For his sonnes caryed hym into the lande of Chanaan, & buryed hym in the caue of the fielde Machpelah, whiche fielde Abraham bought to be a place to bury in of Ephron the Hethite, before Mamre.
Genesis 50:25
And Ioseph toke an othe of the chyldren of Israel, saying: God wyll not fayle but visite you, and ye shall cary my bones hence.
Job 30:23
Sure I am that thou wilt bryng me vnto death, euen to the lodging that is due vnto all men liuing.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man beget a hundred children, and lyue many yeres, so that his dayes are many in number, and yet can not enioy his good, neither be buryed: as for him I say, that vntymely birth is better then he.
Ecclesiastes 12:5
When men shall feare in hye places, and be afraide in the streetes, when the Almonde tree shall florishe and be laden with the grashopper, and when all lust shal passe: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streetes.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
Then shall the dust be turned agayne vnto earth from whence it came, and the spirite shall returne vnto God who gaue 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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