Luke 23:16-18

EasyEnglish Bible

¹⁶ So I will just punish him. I will command a soldier to hit him with whips. Then I will let him go.’

¹⁷ [Pilate usually let one person go free out of the prison at Passover time.]^[a]

¹⁸ But the crowd all shouted together, ‘Take this man away and kill him! We want Barabbas to go free.’