12 And both Herod and Pilate became friends with one another on that same day, for they had previously been enemies of one another.[a]

Pilate Releases Barabbas

13 So Pilate called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people 14 and[b] said to them, “You brought me this man as one who was misleading the people, and behold, when I[c] examined him[d] before you, I found nothing in this man as basis for the accusation which you are making[e] against him.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 23:12 Literally “for they had previously existed being at enmity with each other”
  2. Luke 23:14 Here “and” is supplied because the participle in the previous verse (“called together”) has been translated as a finite verb
  3. Luke 23:14 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“examined”) which is understood as temporal
  4. Luke 23:14 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  5. Luke 23:14 Literally “you are accusing”