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Chastise (paideusas). First aorist active participle of paideuō, to train a child (pais), and then, as a part of the training, punishment. Our English word chasten is from the Latin castus, pure, chaste, and means to purify (cf. Heb 12:6.). Perhaps Pilate may have split a hair over the word as Wycliff puts it: “I shall deliver him amended.” But, if Jesus was innocent, Pilate had no doubt to “chastise” him to satisfy a mob. Luk 23:17 is omitted by Westcott and Hort as from Mar 15:6; Mat 27:15.