20 And Pilate, wanting to release Jesus, addressed them[a][b] again, 21 but they kept crying out, saying, “Crucify! Crucify him!” 22 So he said to them a third time, “Why? What wrong has this man done? I found no basis for an accusation deserving death[c] in him. Therefore I will punish him and[d] release him.”[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 23:20 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  2. Luke 23:20 Some manuscripts explicitly state “them”
  3. Luke 23:22 Literally “of death”
  4. Luke 23:22 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“punish”) has been translated as a finite verb
  5. Luke 23:22 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation