The Crowd Chooses Barabbas
Luke 23:23
In 9 translations
- BSB
- But they were insistent, demanding with loud voices for Jesus to be crucified. And their clamor prevailed.BYZ and TR include and that of the chief priests.
- KJV
- And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.
- WEB
- But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.
- ASV
- But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. And their voices prevailed.
- LSV
- And they were pressing with loud voices asking Him to be crucified, and their voices, and those of the chief priests, were prevailing,
- YLT
- And they were pressing with loud voices asking him to be crucified, and their voices, and those of the chief priests, were prevailing,
- DBY
- But they were urgent with loud voices, begging that he might be crucified. And their voices [and those of the chief priests] prevailed.
- DRC
- But they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified; and their voices prevailed.
- GNV
- But they were instant with loude voyces, and required that he might be crucified: and the voyces of them and of the hie Priests preuailed.
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- In STEPBible’s comparison, Tregelles, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include καὶ τῶν ἀρχιερέων (“and of the chief priests”); NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort do not include this wording.
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- SBLGNT: αὐτῶν. Westcott and Hort (1881), Nestle–Aland 28th edition read αὐτῶν; Tregelles, Robinson–Pierpont add καὶ τῶν ἀρχιερέων.
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Original-language editions
- SBLGNT
- οἱ δὲ ἐπέκειντο φωναῖς μεγάλαις αἰτούμενοι αὐτὸν σταυρωθῆναι, καὶ κατίσχυον αἱ φωναὶ αὐτῶν.
- RP2018
- Οἱ δὲ ἐπέκειντο φωναῖς μεγάλαις, αἰτούμενοι αὐτὸν σταυρωθῆναι· καὶ κατίσχυον αἱ φωναὶ αὐτῶν καὶ τῶν ἀρχιερέων.
- TR-Boyd
- Οἱ δὲ ἐπέκειντο φωναῖς μεγάλαις, αἰτούμενοι αὐτὸν σταυρωθῆναι· καὶ κατίσχυον αἱ φωναὶ αὐτῶν καὶ τῶν ἀρχιερέων.
- SCR1894
- οι δε επεκειντο φωναις μεγαλαις αιτουμενοι αυτον σταυρωθηναι και κατισχυον αι φωναι αυτων και των αρχιερεων
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- Zechariah 11:8And in one month I dismissed three shepherds. My soul grew impatient with the flock, and their souls also detested me.
- Luke 23:5But they kept insisting, “He stirs up the people all over Judea with His teaching. He began in Galilee and has come all the way here.”
- Psalms 57:4My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts— with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
- Psalms 22:12–13Many bulls surround me; strong bulls of Bashan encircle me. They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul.
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