OT-POET.filter - rwp Barabbas:
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Acts:21:36 @{Followed after} (\kolouthei\). Imperfect active of \akoluthe\, was following. Cheated of their purpose to lynch Paul, they were determined to have his blood. {Crying out} (\krazontes\). Construction according to sense, plural masculine participle agreeing with neuter singular substantive \plthos\ (Robertson, _Grammar_, p. 401). {Away with him} (\Aire auton\). The very words used by the mob to Pilate when they chose Barabbas in preference to Jesus (Luke:23:18|, \Aire touton\). He will hear it again from this same crowd (Acts:22:22|). It is the present imperative (\aire\) as in strkjv@Luke:23:18|, but some may have used the urgent aorist active imperative as also in the case of Jesus strkjv@John:19:15|, \ron, ron\ with \staurson\ added). Luke does not say that this mob demanded crucifixion for Paul. He was learning what it was to share the sufferings of Christ as the sullen roar of the mob's yells rolled on and on in his ears.
rwp@Luke:22:52 @{As against a robber?} (\hs epi listn;\). They were treating Jesus as if he were a bandit like Barabbas.
rwp@Luke:23:25 @{Whom they asked for} (\hon itounto\). Imperfect middle, for whom they had been asking for themselves. Luke repeats that Barabbas was in prison "for insurrection and murder." {To their will} (\ti thelmati autn\). This is mob law by the judge who surrenders his own power and justice to the clamour of the crowd.
rwp@Luke:23:33 @{The skull} (\to kranion\). Probably because it looked like a skull. See on ¯Matthew:27:33; strkjv@Mark:15:22|. {There they crucified him} (\ekei estaursan\). There between the two robbers and on the very cross on which Barabbas, the leader of the robber band, was to have been crucified. {One} (\hon men\), {the other} (\hon de\). Common idiom of contrast with this old demonstrative \hos\ and \men\ and \de\.