Luke 23:23 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²³ But the people loudly demanded that Jesus be crucified. And their shouting won out.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and of the chief priests prevailed.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ But they were insistent and urgent, demanding with loud cries that He should be crucified. And their voices prevailed (accomplished their purpose).

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ But they were urgent with loud voices, asking that he might be crucified. And their voices prevailed.

Common English Bible

²³ But they were adamant, shouting their demand that Jesus be crucified. Their voices won out.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ But they persisted, with loud voices, in demanding that he be crucified. And their voices increased in intensity.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ But they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified; and their voices prevailed.

Luke 23:23 Cross References

Mark 14:31

But Peter kept insisting emphatically, “Even if I have to die with you, still I will not deny [knowing] you.” And all the rest of the disciples spoke the same way.

Luke 23:22

So, Pilate called out to them a third time, “Why [should he be crucified]; what wrong has this man done? I have not found any reason for putting him to death, so I will punish him and [then] release him.”

Luke 23:24

So, Pilate issued the sentence the people were demanding

Luke 23:5

But the group became more insistent, saying, “He is stirring up the people and teaching [these things] throughout all Judea. He began [doing this] in Galilee and [has continued it] even to this place [i.e., Jerusalem].”