Matthew Poole and continuators on John 18:39
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John18:39
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 ?
Whence this custom came is uncertain; most probably from the Romans, who in some honour of this great Festival of the Iews, and in humor of them, granted them the life of any Criminal whom they desired: Pilate propounds Christ as the prisoner whom he had most mind to release, perceiving that his prosecution was of malice, rather than for any just cause.
Marginal references: Mark 15.6.
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