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New King James Version

Luke 23:19

who had been thrown into prison for a certain rebellion made in the city, and for murder.

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.
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 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 Matthew 27:15-26; Mark 15:6-15; John 18:38-19:16">[xr] Then Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people, 14 said to them, "You have brought this Man to me, as one who misleads the people. And indeed, having examined Him in your presence, I have found no fault in this Man concerning those things of which you accuse Him; 15 no, neither did Herod, for I sent you back to him; [fn] and indeed nothing deserving of death has been done by Him. 16 I will therefore chastise Him and release Him" 17 (for it was necessary for him to release one to them at the feast). Luke 23:17.">[fn] 18 And they all cried out at once, saying, "Away with this Man, and release to us Barabbas"-- 19 who had been thrown into prison for a certain rebellion made in the city, and for murder. 20 Pilate, therefore, wishing to release Jesus, again called out to them. 21 But they shouted, saying, "Crucify Him, crucify Him!" 22 Then he said to them the third time, "Why, what evil has He done? I have found no reason for death in Him. I will therefore chastise Him 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
In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread Till you return to the ground, For out of it you were taken; For dust you are, And to dust you shall return."
Genesis 23:9
that he may give me the cave of Machpelah which he has, which is at the end of his field. Let him give it to me at the full price, as property for a burial place among you."
Genesis 23:10
Now Ephron dwelt among the sons of Heth; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the presence of the sons of Heth, all who entered at the gate of his city, saying,
Genesis 47:30
but let me lie with my fathers; you shall carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place." And he said, "I will do as you have said."
Genesis 50:13
For his sons carried him to the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as property for a burial place.
Genesis 50:25
Then Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here."
Job 30:23
For I know that You will bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better than he--
Ecclesiastes 12:5
Also they are afraid of height, And of terrors in the way; When the almond tree blossoms, The grasshopper is a burden, And desire fails. For man goes to his eternal home, And the mourners go about the streets.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, And the spirit will return 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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