In that moment, Barabbas walked away, his shackles removed, a free man. But his freedom came at a cost—Jesus took his place. This is the very essence of what Christ did for all of us.

Though Jesus had been beloved in Jerusalem less than a week before, the chief priests and the elders persuaded the people to vote to release Barabbas. And what was to be done with the innocent ...

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 ...

He contends that Jesus being crucified “in the middle” between two thieves in John 19:18 means that “If you’re looking for the real Jesus, not a caricature disfigured by partisan ...

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Neither Barabbas, nor Annas, nor Pilate has provided what Latin America wants and needs. But the three men have one thing in common—nothing much was heard from any of them after Good Friday.