20 Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the multitudes to ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus.
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Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Matthew 27:20. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
Panels
4
Word Entries
59
Editorial Notes
0
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Greek Textus Receptus
Greek · Greek New Testament · Public Domain
Coverage: New Testament
Greek New Testament source layer with imported morphology.
Οἱ δὲ ἀρχιερεῖς καὶ οἱ πρεσβύτεροι ἔπεισαν τοὺς ὄχλους ἵνα αἰτήσωνται τὸν Βαραββᾶν, τὸν δὲ Ἰησοῦν ἀπολέσωσιν.
17 word entries
Οἱ
δὲ
ἀρχιερεῖς
καὶ
οἱ
πρεσβύτεροι
- Lemma
- presbuteroi
- Transliteration
- presbuteroi
- Morphology
- Greek: adjective nominative plural masculine
- Part of Speech
- adjective
- Strong's
- G4245
- Occurrences
- 22
ἔπεισαν
τοὺς
ὄχλους
ἵνα
αἰτήσωνται
- Lemma
- aithswntai
- Transliteration
- aithswntai
- Morphology
- Greek: verb aorist middle subjunctive plural
- Part of Speech
- verb
- Strong's
- G154
- Occurrences
- 2
τὸν
Βαραββᾶν
τὸν
δὲ
Ἰησοῦν
ἀπολέσωσιν
- Lemma
- apoleswsin
- Transliteration
- apoleswsin
- Morphology
- Greek: verb aorist active subjunctive plural
- Part of Speech
- verb
- Strong's
- G622
- Occurrences
- 3
Tischendorf / Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament
Greek · Greek New Testament · Public Domain
Coverage: New Testament sample / proof panel
Proof-of-flow source panel, not full coverage.
οἱ δὲ ἀρχιερεῖς καὶ οἱ πρεσβύτεροι ἔπεισαν τοὺς ὄχλους ἵνα αἰτήσωνται τὸν Βαραββᾶν, τὸν δὲ Ἰησοῦν ἀπολέσωσιν.
17 word entries
οἱ
καὶ
οἱ
πρεσβύτεροι
- Lemma
- πρεσβύτερος
- Morphology
- A-NPM-C
- Part of Speech
- A
- Strong's
- G4245
- Occurrences
- 66
τοὺς
τὸν
τὸν
Syriac Peshitta New Testament
Syriac · Syriac Peshitta · MIT License
Coverage: New Testament
Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.
ܪܒܝ ܟܗܢܐ ܕܝܢ ܘܩܫܝܫܐ ܐܦܝܣܘ ܠܟܢܫܐ ܕܢܫܐܠܘܢ ܠܒܪ-ܐܒܐ ܠܝܫܘܥ ܕܝܢ ܕܢܘܒܕܘܢ
12 word entries
ܪܒܝ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܪܒܝ
- Transliteration
- rby
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 72
ܟܗܢܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܟܗܢܐ
- Transliteration
- khn'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 109
ܕܝܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܝܢ
- Transliteration
- dyn
- Morphology
- possible plural/participle or finite verbal ending; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 1830
ܘܩܫܝܫܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܘܩܫܝܫܐ
- Transliteration
- wqshysh'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 25
ܐܦܝܣܘ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܐܦܝܣܘ
- Transliteration
- 'pysw
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 1
ܠܟܢܫܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܠܟܢܫܐ
- Transliteration
- lknsh'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 37
ܕܢܫܐܠܘܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܢܫܐܠܘܢ
- Transliteration
- dnsh'lwn
- Morphology
- possible masculine plural or verbal/pronominal ending; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 3
ܠܒܪ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܠܒܪ
- Transliteration
- lbr
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 90
ܐܒܐ
- Confidence
- medium preliminary Syriac rule/lexicon alignment
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac lexicon alignment. Useful for search and first-pass study; review before labeling as verified scholarship.
- Lemma
- ܐܒܐ
- Transliteration
- abba
- Morphology
- noun, emphatic singular
- Gloss
- father
- Occurrences
- 94
ܠܝܫܘܥ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܠܝܫܘܥ
- Transliteration
- lyshw'
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 75
ܕܝܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܝܢ
- Transliteration
- dyn
- Morphology
- possible plural/participle or finite verbal ending; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 1830
ܕܢܘܒܕܘܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܢܘܒܕܘܢ
- Transliteration
- dnwbdwn
- Morphology
- possible masculine plural or verbal/pronominal ending; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 1
Latin Vulgate Clementine
Latin · Latin Vulgate · Public Domain text; CC BY-SA 4.0 morphology
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Principes autem sacerdotum et seniores persuaserunt populis ut peterent Barabbam, Jesum vero perderent.
13 word entries
princeps
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- princeps
- Transliteration
- princeps
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 830
autem
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- autem
- Transliteration
- autem
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 5069
sacerdotum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sacerdos
- Transliteration
- sacerdotum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 777
et
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- et
- Transliteration
- et
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Gloss
- and
- Part of Speech
- conjunction
- Definition
- and, also, even
- Etymology
- Basic Latin coordinating conjunction.
- Occurrences
- 50526
seniores
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- senex
- Transliteration
- seniores
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 231
persuaserunt
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- persuadeo
- Transliteration
- persuaserunt
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 9
populis
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- populus
- Transliteration
- populis
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 2030
ut
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- ut
- Transliteration
- ut
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: subordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 4533
peterent
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- peto
- Transliteration
- peterent
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 121
Barabban
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- Barabbas
- Transliteration
- Barabban
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: proper noun
- Occurrences
- 11
Iesum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- Iesus
- Transliteration
- Iesum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: proper noun
- Occurrences
- 970
vero
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- uero
- Transliteration
- vero
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 537
perderent
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- perdo
- Transliteration
- perderent
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 136
Ranked cross references
Connections are ranked by community votes in the OpenBible.info cross-reference dataset (CC BY 4.0). They suggest related themes, words, events, or people; they are not automatic interpretations.
John 18:40
Then they all shouted again, saying, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.
3 relevance votesMark 15:11
But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should release Barabbas to them instead.
3 relevance votes