Luke 23:19

“Who, for a certain sedition made in the city, etc.] 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.”

“See the notes at Matthew 27:20-23. return to 'Top of Page'”

“23:19 Palestine was a breeding ground for insurrection in the decades leading up to the Jewish revolt of AD 66–74. The Jewish historian Josephus describes a series of first-century revolutionaries, such as Judas of Galilee, who opposed Roman rule and taxation (see also Acts 5:36-37).”

“Luk 23:2, Luk 23:5; Act 3:14 Luke 23:20”