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Apr 27, 2023 · Tradition states that after his release, Barabbas either watches Jesus’ crucifixion, or that he gets killed in another insurrection. In either case, a lack of physical manuscripts outside of the Bible does not negate his existence.
May 8, 2024 · Historically, the release of Barabbas at the crowd’s behest, and their subsequent demands to crucify Jesus, have been used to justify anti-Semitism. Many have placed blame for Christ’s death on the Jews, commonly citing Matthew 27:25, in which the crowd shouts, “His blood be on us and on our children!”.
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According to all four canonical gospels there was a prevailing Passover custom in Jerusalem that allowed Pontius Pilate, the praefectus or governor of Judea, to commute one prisoner's death sentence by popular acclaim.
Jan 25, 2024 · Yes, that Barabbas! The person who was freed so that Jesus, a person who neither sinned nor was found to have any fault, would suffer the fate of criminals by the ultimate of cruel punishments on the Cross. We have such a Barabbas figure in our society today. His name is Donald Trump.
Aug 5, 2022 · We stood guilty before God and deserving of death (Romans 3:23; 6:23a). But then, due to no influence of our own, Jesus was chosen to die in our stead. He, the Innocent One, bore the punishment we rightly deserved. We, like Barabbas, were allowed to go free with no condemnation (Romans 8:1). And Jesus “suffered once for sins, the righteous ...
Mar 16, 2021 · At one level, his is a simple story of exchange. Barabbas is due to die for his sins, and he deserves to. Yet without doing anything to merit mercy, he discovers that Jesus is going to die...
Mar 7, 2022 · Yet despite his guilt and depravity, Barabbas is granted freedom from the death penalty and is released from prison, while an innocent man—Jesus—is sentenced to die in his place. The implications of this horrifying injustice in history continue to reverberate through time.