{Chastise} (paideusas). First aorist active participle of
paideu(935c), 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 12:6f. ).
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.
Verse  17  is omitted by Westcott and Hort as from  Mr 15:6  Mt
27:15 .