Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
But they were the more urgent (oi de episxuon). Imperfect active of episxuw, to give added (epi) strength (isxuw). And they kept insisting. Evidently Pilate had taken the thing too lightly.
He stirred up the people (anaseiei ton laon). This compound is rare, though old (Thucydides), to shake up (back and forth). This is a more vigorous repetition of the first charge (verse Luke 23:2, "perverting our nation").
Beginning from Galilee (arcamenov apo thv Galilaiav). These very words occur in the address of Peter to the group in the house of Cornelius (Acts 10:37). The idiomatic use of arcamenov appears also in Acts 1:22. Galilee (Grote) was the mother of seditious men (see Josephus).
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 23:5:
Acts 10:37
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