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 instead.

Barabbas, whose name means “son of the father,” was spared execution, while Jesus, the true Son of the Father, took his place on the cross. This exchange vividly portrays the cross as a ...

During the long Gospel reading on Sunday, we heard about Jesus and Barabbas, and the choice that Pilate outsources to the angry crowd. It's a dramatic scene; and it reinforces the cruelty and ...

I was preparing a sermon on Jesus and Barabbas and so the question was timely. Jesus and Barabbas Jesus were both Jewish political prisoners of Rome – and for the same reason – opposition to ...

The Barabbas story is full of political importance. It’s often at the center of these “Jesus and politics” books that I’m accumulating. Here, for example, is N.T. Wright: [Jesus] died ...

The story of Barabbas originates in New Testament accounts of Jesus’s trial before Pontius Pilate, Roman governor of Judea in the first century. Pilate questions Jesus and finds him innocent, but to ...

To answer the question, how did Christ lose to Barabbas, well, the scribes who hated Jesus and the Pharisees who were so jealous and afraid of the Messiah rigged the elections. They bought the ...

Shall I release to you Jesus or Barabbas?" the reverend told his congregation. "The people voted unanimously to free Barabbas and then to crucify Christ." "Everybody had a vote," Samuel said ...

even when given a choice to free Jesus or Barabbas, followed by Jesus carrying the cross and being hung on it to die.