Acts 27:42
The advice of the soldiers was that the prisoners should be killed, for fear that any of them should swim away and make their escape.
Mark 15:15-20
And Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released Barabbas to them, and, after scourging Jesus, gave him up to be crucified.
Luke 23:40-41
But the other rebuked him. "Have not you," he said, "any fear of God, now that you are under the same sentence?
Acts 12:19
And, when Herod had made further search for him and failed to find him, he closely questioned the Guard, and ordered them away to execution. Then he went down from Judea to stay at Caesarea.
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And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
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Mark 15:15
And Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released Barabbas to them, and, after scourging Jesus, gave him up to be crucified.
Luke 23:40
But the other rebuked him. "Have not you," he said, "any fear of God, now that you are under the same sentence?