LUKE 23:17 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“(For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)”
Now he was obliged to release one man to them at the Feast — the Passover prisoner release custom is mentioned here in some manuscripts: the Roman governor's customary gesture of releasing a prisoner at Passover as goodwill toward the subject population. Some manuscripts omit this verse as an explanatory gloss.
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