Luk 23:5 | RWP | e4.org | But they were the more urgent ( ο δε επισχυον ). Imperfect active of επισχυω , to give added ( επ ) strength ( ισχυω ). And they kept insisting. Evidently Pilate had taken the thing too lightly. He stirred up the people ( ανασειε τον λαον ). This compound is rare, though old (Thucydides), to shake up (back and forth). This is a more vigorous repetition of the first charge (verse , "perverting our nation"). Beginning from Galilee ( αρξαμενος απο της Γαλιλαιας ). These very words occur in the address of Peter to the group in the house of Cornelius ( ). The idiomatic use of αρξαμενος appears also in . Galilee (Grote) was the mother of seditious men (see Josephus).

‏ Luke 23:5

But they were the more urgent ( ο δε επισχυον ). Imperfect active of επισχυω, to give added ( επ ) strength ( ισχυω ). And they kept insisting. Evidently Pilate had taken the thing too lightly.

He stirred up the people ( ανασειε τον λαον ). This compound is rare, though old (Thucydides), to shake up (back and forth). This is a more vigorous repetition of the first charge (verse 2, "perverting our nation").

Beginning from Galilee ( αρξαμενος απο της Γαλιλαιας ). These very words occur in the address of Peter to the group in the house of Cornelius (Ac 10:37). The idiomatic use of αρξαμενος appears also in Ac 1:22. Galilee (Grote) was the mother of seditious men (see Josephus).