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Selected Verse: Luke 23:16 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Lu 23:16 |
King James |
I will therefore chastise him, and release him. |
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| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
I will therefore chastise him - The word "chastise" here means to "scourge or to whip." This was usually done before capital punishment, to increase the sufferings of the man condemned. It is not easy to see the reason why, if Pilate supposed Jesus to be "innocent," he should propose publicly to scourge him. It was as "really" unjust to do that as it was to crucify him. But probably he expected by this to conciliate the minds of his accusers; to show them that he was willing to gratify them if it "could" be done with propriety; and perhaps he expected that by seeing him whipped and disgraced, and condemned to ridicule, to contempt, and to suffering, they would be satisfied. It is farther remarked that among the Romans it was competent for a magistrate to inflict a "slight" punishment on a man when a charge of gross offence was not fully made out, or where there was not sufficient testimony to substantiate the precise charge alleged. All this shows,
1. The palpable "injustice" of our Lord's condemnation;
2. The persevering malice and obstinacy of the Jews; and,
3. The want of firmness in Pilate.
He should have released him at once; but the love of "popularity" led him to the murder of the Son of God. Man should do his duty in all situations; and he that, like Pilate, seeks only for public favor and popularity, will assuredly be led into crime. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Chastise (παιδεύσας)
Originally to bring up a child (παῖς). Hence, to instruct; so Act 7:22, of Moses instructed in the wisdom of the Egyptians; and Act 22:3, of Paul instructed in the law. To discipline or correct, as Heb 12:6, Heb 12:7. The word is not synonymous with punish, since it always implies an infliction which contemplates the subject's amendment; and hence answers to chastise or chasten. So Heb 12:10; Rev 3:19. In popular speech chastise and punish are often confounded. Chasten is from the Latin castus, "pure," "chaste ;" and to chasten is, properly, to purify. This meaning underlies even the use of the word by Pilate, who was not likely to be nice in his choice of words. Instead of punishing him with death, he will chastise him, in order to teach him better. So Wyc., I shall deliver him amended. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| I will therefore chastise him - Here Pilate began to give ground, which only encouraged them to press on. Mat 27:15; Mar 15:6; Joh 18:39. |
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
3 I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.
22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.
39 But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?
6 Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired.
15 Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would.