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What does Luke 23:24 mean?
"Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done."
— Luke 23:24 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
but they shouted, saying, “Crucify! Crucify him!”
He said to them the third time, “Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him.”
But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. Their voices and the voices of the chief priests prevailed.
Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done.
He released him who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus up to their will.
When they led him away, they grabbed one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it after Jesus.
A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.
Explanation
Luke 23:24 records the moment when Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea, finally gives in to the demands of the crowd and orders that Jesus be crucified. In plain language, the verse says that Pilate, despite his own reservations, formally decided the case in favor of what the
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