John Gill's Exposition on Luke 23:19

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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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.

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