Charles Ellicott Commentary Luke 23:5

"But they were the more urgent, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Judaea, and beginning from Galilee even unto this place." — Luke 23:5 (ASV)

Teaching throughout all Judea.—This is one of the few passages in which the old English equivalent for Judea retains its place in the Authorised Version (Daniel 5:13); in the Prayer Book version of the Psalms, from the Great Bible (see Introduction), we find it in Psalm 76:1. Traces of the general use of the word remain in Shakespeare's way of speaking of “Herod of Jewry,” and in the Old Jewry as the name of the Jews’ quarter in ancient London. The charge of “beginning from Galilee” probably rested upon the crowds that had followed Him on His last journey to Jerusalem.