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In fact Origen reports that in several manuscripts of the Gospels he had seen the name given as "Jesus Barabbas" or "Jesus, son of Abba." Accordingly, the first name was afterward omitted from the manuscripts of the Gospels when the name of Jesus had become sacred. Chajes (in Hilgenfeld's "Zeitschrift," xliii. 280) thinks of the Talmudical name ...
BARABBAS. ba-rab'-as (Barabbas): For Aramaic Bar-abba = literally, "son of the father," i.e. of the master or teacher. Abba in the time of Jesus was perhaps a title of honor ( Matthew 23:9 ), but became later a proper name. The variant Barrabban found in the 19-Harclean Syriac would mean "son of the rabbi or teacher."
Mar 7, 2022 · Scripture tells us that Barabbas was a robber ( John 18:14 ), an insurrectionist, and a murderer ( Mark 15:7 ). 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 ...
Barabbas [N] [H] [S] i.e., son of Abba or of a father, a notorious robber whom Pilate proposed to condemn to death instead of Jesus, whom he wished to release, in accordance with the Roman custom ( John 18:40 ; Mark 15:7 ; Luke 23:19 ). But the Jews were so bent on the death of Jesus that they demanded that Barabbas should be pardoned ( Matthew ...
Barabbas: Directed by Richard Fleischer. With Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano, Arthur Kennedy, Katy Jurado. Governor Pontius Pilate gave the populace a choice to spare either Barabbas, a criminal, or Jesus, condemned as a heretic, from crucifixion.
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Apr 5, 2012 · It is Barabbas who is the guilty, says Luke, “a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city and for murder.” Barabbas is the same man called “a notorious prisoner” in Matthew 27:16, and Mark 15:7 tells us that Barabbas was “among the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection.”
Barabbas is a 1950 novel by Swedish Nobel Prize-winning author Pär Lagerkvist. Set in the ancient Middle East, it retells the Biblical story of Barabbas, a man who was allegedly set free from the same prison as Jesus just before his crucifixion. The novel juxtaposes Jesus and Barabbas, who died first and last, respectively, out of three ...
