Luke 23:20

Luke 23:20
Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Jesus,

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Exodus 23:7
“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous; for I will not justify the wicked.

1 Kings 21:13
The two men, the wicked fellows, came in and sat before him. The wicked fellows testified against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, “Naboth cursed God and the king!” Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him to death with stones.

Proverbs 17:15
He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the righteous, both of them alike are an abomination to Yahweh.

Proverbs 24:23
These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.

Proverbs 24:24
He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,” peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor him—

Isaiah 5:23
who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!

Isaiah 55:8
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways,” says Yahweh.

Isaiah 55:9
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Ezekiel 22:27
Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.

Ezekiel 22:28
Her prophets have plastered for them with whitewash, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, ‘The Lord Yahweh says,’ when Yahweh has not spoken.

Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

Amos 5:7
You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!

Amos 5:12
For I know how many are your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.

Amos 6:12
Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness,

Micah 7:3
Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe. The powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

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1 Samuel 15:9
But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, of the cattle, of the fat calves, of the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to utterly destroy them; but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

1 Samuel 15:15
Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest.”

Job 31:34
because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—

Isaiah 51:13
Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor?

Galatians 1:10
For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

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1 Samuel 23:9
David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him. He said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”

Esther 3:6
But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people.

Esther 3:7
In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, and chose the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.

Job 15:35
They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”

Psalms 7:14
Behold, he travails with iniquity. Yes, he has conceived mischief, and brought out falsehood.

Psalms 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

Psalms 28:3
Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

Psalms 36:4
He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.

Psalms 64:4
to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

Psalms 64:5
They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”

Psalms 64:6
They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a perfect plan!” Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.

Psalms 140:2
those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

Proverbs 6:14
in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

Proverbs 24:2
for their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief.

Proverbs 24:8
One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.

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1 Samuel 23:19
Then the Ziphites came up to Saul to Gibeah, saying, “Doesn’t David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the woods, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert?

1 Samuel 23:20
Now therefore, O king, come down. According to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part will be to deliver him up into the king’s hand.”

1 Samuel 23:21
Saul said, “You are blessed by Yahweh, for you have had compassion on me.

Jeremiah 38:4
Then the princes said to the king, “Please let this man be put to death, because he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them; for this man doesn’t seek the welfare of this people, but harm.”

Matthew 14:8
She, being prompted by her mother, said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptizer.”

Mark 6:23
He swore to her, “Whatever you ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom.”

Mark 6:24
She went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask?” She said, “The head of John the Baptizer.”

Mark 6:25
She came in immediately with haste to the king and requested, “I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptizer on a platter.”

Luke 23:1
The whole company of them rose up and brought him before Pilate.

Luke 23:8
Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad, for he had wanted to see him for a long time, because he had heard many things about him. He hoped to see some miracle done by him.

Luke 23:9
He questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers.

Luke 23:10
The chief priests and the scribes stood, vehemently accusing him.

Luke 23:11
Herod with his soldiers humiliated him and mocked him. Dressing him in luxurious clothing, they sent him back to Pilate.

Luke 23:12
Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before that they were enemies with each other.

Acts 9:2
and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

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Psalms 2:2
The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,

Psalms 3:1
Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.

Psalms 64:2
Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

Isaiah 59:4
No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

Matthew 26:3
Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas.

Matthew 26:4
They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit and kill him.

Acts 13:10
and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

Acts 25:3
asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem, plotting to kill him on the way.

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Matthew 14:9
The king was grieved, but for the sake of his oaths and of those who sat at the table with him, he commanded it to be given,

Mark 6:26
The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths and of his dinner guests, he didn’t wish to refuse her.

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Job 31:31
if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’

Psalms 22:8
“He trusts in Yahweh. Let him deliver him. Let him rescue him, since he delights in him.”

Psalms 22:9
But you brought me out of the womb. You made me trust while at my mother’s breasts.

Isaiah 49:7
Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

Isaiah 53:2
For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

Isaiah 53:3
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.

Zechariah 11:8
I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

Mark 14:55
Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none.

Acts 13:38
Be it known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man is proclaimed to you remission of sins;

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Mark 15:15
Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.

1 Peter 1:19
but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ,

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Luke 6:13
When it was day, he called his disciples, and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:

Luke 7:32
They are like children who sit in the marketplace and call to one another, saying, ‘We piped to you, and you didn’t dance. We mourned, and you didn’t weep.’

Luke 13:12
When Jesus saw her, he called her and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your infirmity.”

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Matthew 27:15
Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release to the multitude one prisoner whom they desired.

Matthew 27:16
They had then a notable prisoner called Barabbas.

Mark 15:6
Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whomever they asked of him.

Mark 15:8
The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them.

John 18:39
But you have a custom that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore, do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”

John 18:40
Then they all shouted again, saying, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.

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Acts 22:2
When they heard that he spoke to them in the Hebrew language, they were even more quiet. He said,

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Romans 4:5
But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.

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Daniel 3:13
Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and fury commanded that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego be brought. Then these men were brought before the king.

Daniel 6:14
Then the king, when he heard these words, was very displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored until the going down of the sun to rescue him.

Matthew 27:21
But the governor answered them, “Which of the two do you want me to release to you?” They said, “Barabbas!”

Matthew 27:24
So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”

Mark 15:14
Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they cried out exceedingly, “Crucify him!”

John 19:7
The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.”

John 19:8
When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was more afraid.

John 19:9
He entered into the Praetorium again, and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer.

John 19:10
Pilate therefore said to him, “Aren’t you speaking to me? Don’t you know that I have power to release you and have power to crucify you?”

John 19:11
Jesus answered, “You would have no power at all against me, unless it were given to you from above. Therefore he who delivered me to you has greater sin.”

Acts 2:23
him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;

Acts 3:14
But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

Acts 3:15
and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.

James 5:6
You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.

1 Peter 3:18
Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

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