Luke 23:19

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).

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Luk 23:19 . ὅστις seems to be = ὅς here, following the growing usage of later Greek (Schanz, vide Buttmann, Gram. , p. 115). διὰ στάσιν … καὶ φόνον = διὰ φόνον ἐν στάσει πεποιημένον , Pricaeus. ἦν βληθείς : instead of ἔβληθη , the analytic form is unusual with the aorist (here only in N.T.), hence probably the reading of T.R., βεβλημένος .

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(19) Who for a certain sedition.—St. Luke’s and St. Mark’s accounts agree more closely than the others. St. John alone speaks of Barabbas as a “robber;” St. Matthew merely calls him a “notable prisoner.”

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19. who] The word implies ‘a man of such a kind, that, &c.’

and for murder] “Ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you,” Act_3:14. Nothing is known of Bar-Abbas, but it has been conjectured from his name that he or his father belonged to the order of the Sanhedrists, who therefore desired his release. If he had been a follower of Judas of Galilee, or engaged in the riot against Pilate about his use of the Corban, he would enlist the sympathies of the people also.

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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.

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19 (Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.)

Ver. 19. See Joh 18:40. {See Trapp on "Joh 18:40"}

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19. ὅστις. The word implies ‘a man of such a kind, that, &c.’

καὶ φόνον. “Ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you,” Act 3:14. Nothing is known of Bar-Abbas, but it has been conjectured from his name that he or his father belonged to the order of the Sanhedrists, who therefore desired his release. If he had been a follower of Judas of Galilee, or engaged in the riot against Pilate about his use of the Corban, he would enlist the sympathies of the people also.

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19. διὰ στάσιν τινὰ γενομένην. Of Barabbas they might with some truth have said τοῦτον εὕραμεν διαστρέφοντα τὸ ἔθνος (ver. 2). Not that he had originated the στάσις but that he had taken a conspicuous part in it. The στάσις was probably no popular movement, but some plundering disturbance. Jn. calls him simply “a robber,” and he may have been connected with the other two robbers who were crucified with Jesus. The rather awkward order of the words in the verse is perhaps to intimate that while the στάσις took place in the city the murder did not.

On the rare form of periphrastic tense (ἦν with aor. part.), see Burton., § 20. βληθείς is the reading of B L T, for which א* a A D X Γ etc. have the more usual βεβλημ(μ)ένος: and while א B L T X, f qhave ἐν τῇ φυλακ͂ͅ, A D Γ Δ etc. have the obvious correction εἰς τὴν φυλακήν.

Excepting Mar 15:7 and Heb 9:8, στάσις in N.T. is peculiar to Lk. (ver. 25; Act 15:2. Act 15:19:40, Act 15:23:7, Act 15:10, Act 15:24:5). In LXX it represents several Hebrew words of different meaning. Syr-Sin. here has “wicked deeds.”

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Who [οστις] . Classifying him. One of such a kind as that he had been imprisoned, etc.

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