Imagine his reaction when the crowd brayed for Barabbas — an unrepentant criminal — rather than Jesus, who had fed and healed some of them but who also had a tendency to make folks squirm by ...

The Gospel writers are actually trying to communicate here (as also with the Barabbas episode in Mark 15:6-14) that Jesus was mistakenly crucified as a violent zealot against the Roman occupiers ...

In the New Testament of the Bible, Barabbas is a prisoner who was chosen by the crowd over Jesus to be released by Pontius Pilate before the Passover feast. Barabbas is mentioned in all four ...

Dreams were taken very seriously by Romans so Pilate did not want to condemn Jesus to death. However, Pilate’s plan did not work because the Sanhedrin persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas to ...

The crowd chose to free Barabbas, a well-known criminal, thereby condemning Christ to death. Once Jesus had been condemned he was whipped, stripped of his clothes and given a crown of thorns and a ...