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Luke 23:17

Made Simple — Modern English Translation

Translated by Verse Made Simple Editorial

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KJV ORIGINAL

(For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)

Close to the original. Clear modern English.

✦ MADE SIMPLE

(This was because Pilate had to release one prisoner to the crowd every year during the festival — it was just how things worked.)

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

Even corrupt systems sometimes have rules that can be used for good.

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So here's what happened every year during this festival — the governor would let one prisoner go free, whoever the crowd wanted released.

Every year during the festival, the governor had this tradition where he'd let the crowd pick one prisoner to go free.

All the people who had returned from being prisoners in foreign lands built temporary shelters and lived in them during the festival. The Israelites hadn't celebrated this way since the time of Joshua, hundreds of years earlier. There was incredible joy among everyone.

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