Luke 23:5

οἱ δὲ ἐπίσχυον. ‘But they were more urgent,’ or, but they kept insisting. Vulg[399] invalescebant. This and similar expressions hardly convey to us the terrible violence and excitement of an Oriental mob.

[399] Vulg. Vulgate.

καθ' ὅλης τῆς Ἰουδαίας. The A.V[400] here needlessly renders Ἰουδαίας by ‘Jewry’ (comp. Daniel 5:13). These words furnish one of the traces in the Synoptists of the Judaean ministry which they imply, but do not narrate. Comp. Acts 10:37.

[400] A.V. Authorised Version.

ἀπὸ τῆς Γαλιλαίας. See Luke 4:14. This is probably mentioned to prejudice Pilate all the more against Him, as he had a quarrel with the Galilaeans, but dum rem amplificant, Pilato dant rimam. Bengel.