Theophylact of Ohrid

Pilate proposes for a third time to release Him, and for a third time they cry out against Christ, so that by this threefold outcry they might definitively confirm their thirst for murder. And they—as the blessed Peter says—"denied the Holy and Righteous One," and asked for a murderer to be granted to them (Acts 3:14). For they love what is like themselves (which is why they take part in it), because they themselves also revolted against the Romans and became the cause of countless murders and of their own destruction. …

Commentary on Luke ↗

Bede

But Pilate again spoke to them, wanting to release Jesus. But they shouted back, saying: Crucify, Crucify him. How great the cruelty of the unfaithful, who not only desire to kill the innocent, but to kill with the worst kind of death, that is, by crucifixion! For those hanging on the wood of the cross, fastened to the wood by nails in their feet and hands, were killed by a prolonged death, and they were long-lived on the cross, not because a longer life was chosen, but because death itself was extended, lest the pain end quickly. …

On the Gospel of Luke ↗

Bonaventure

Thirdly, as to the conflict between the condemnation and the will of the judge, he adds: And Pilate again spoke to them, wishing to release Jesus: since neither mercy availed nor equity availed, at last authority and will came forward. Now Pilate wished this, both because it was hard for him to hand over so great a man to death without cause, and also because his wife dissuaded him; whence Matthew 27: "While Pilate was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying: Have nothing to do with that just man." But this will of …

Commentary on Luke, Chapter 23 ↗