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5 But they were the more fierce, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from aGalilee to this place.”  

Jesus Faces Herod

6 When Pilate heard1 of Galilee, he asked if the Man were a Galilean.  
7 And as soon as he knew that He belonged to aHerod’s jurisdiction, he sent Him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem at that time.  
8 Now when Herod saw Jesus, ahe was exceedingly glad; for he had desired for a long time to see Him, because bhe had heard many things about Him, and he hoped to see some miracle done by Him.  
9 Then he questioned Him with many words, but He answered him anothing.  
10 And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused Him.
11 aThen Herod, with his men of war, treated Him with contempt and mocked Him, arrayed Him in a gorgeous robe, and sent Him back to Pilate.  
12 That very day aPilate and Herod became friends with each other, for previously they had been at enmity with each other.  

Taking the Place of Barabbas

13 aThen Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people,  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Luke 23:7

Herod' s jurisdiction - The city of Nazareth, in which Christ had continued till he was thirty years of age, and that of Capernaum, in which he principally resided the last years of his life, were both in Lower Galilee, of which Herod Antipas was tetrarch. Pilate was probably glad of this opportunity to pay a little respect to Herod, whom it is likely he had irritated, and with whom he now wished to be friends. See Luke 23:12.




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