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Geneva Bible

Luke 23:19

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

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.)
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.
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 Then Pilate called together the hie Priests and the rulers, and the people, 14 And sayd vnto them, Ye haue brought this man vnto me, as one that peruerted the people: and beholde, I haue examined him before you, and haue found no fault in this man, of those things whereof ye accuse him: 15 No, nor yet Herod: for I sent you to him: and loe, nothing worthy of death is done of him. 16 I will therefore chastise him, and let him loose. 17 (For of necessitie hee must haue let one loose vnto them at the feast.) 18 Then all ye multitude cried at once, saying, Away with him, and deliuer vnto vs Barabbas: 19 Which for a certaine insurrection made in the citie, and murther, was cast in prison. 20 Then Pilate spake againe to them, willing to let Iesus loose. 21 But they cried, saying, Crucifie, crucifie him. 22 And he sayd vnto them the third time, But what euill hath he done? I finde no cause of death in him: I will therefore chastise him, and let him loose.

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 sweate of thy face shalt thou eate bread, till thou returne to the earth: for out of it wast thou taken, because thou art dust, and to dust shalt thou returne.
Genesis 23:9
That he would giue me ye caue of Machpelah, which he hath in the ende of his field: that he would giue it me for as much money as it is worth, for a possession to bury in among you.
Genesis 23:10
(For Ephron dwelt among the Hittites) Then Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of all the Hittites that went in at the gates of his citie, saying,
Genesis 47:30
But when I shall sleepe with my fathers, thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury mee in their buryall. And he answered, I will doe as thou hast sayde.
Genesis 50:13
For his sonnes caried him into the lande of Canaan, & buried him in the caue of the fielde of Machpelah, which caue Abraham bought with the fielde, to be a place to bury in, of Ephron the Hittite besides Mamre.
Genesis 50:25
And Ioseph tooke an oth of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visite you, and ye shall cary my bones hence.
Job 30:23
Surely I knowe that thou wilt bring mee to death, and to the house appoynted for all the liuing.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man beget an hundreth children and liue many yeeres, and the dayes of his yeeres be multiplied, & his soule be not satisfied with good things, and he be not buried, I say that an vntimely fruite is better then he.
Ecclesiastes 12:5
Also they shalbe afraide of the hie thing, and feare shalbe in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grassehopper shall be a burden, and concupiscence shall be driuen away: for man goeth to the house of his age, and the mourners goe about in the streete.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
And dust returne to the earth as it was, and the spirit returne to God that 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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