Barabbas
226The Road to Calvary
29 Sep 2025
25:25¶ 73
“So he releases Barabbas, who is everything they accused Jesus of being and more – a murderer, terrorist, insurrectionist, tax rebel, an enemy of…”
25:58¶ 75
“That’s frightening, free will – it’s at work here. Also the same thing we said for democracy. Someone had said that democracy is only…”
225Suffered Under Pontius Pilate
15 Sep 2025
38:48¶ 120
“It turns out that they had, as Matthew says, a notable prisoner named Barrabas, which means ‘son of the father,’ for whatever that’s worth.…”
39:24¶ 121
“Presumably this was kind of a release valve or escape valve that if Rome had arrested somebody that the Jews liked, probably for expressing…”
39:58¶ 122
“Mostly one thinks that in the past the people who had been released had been popular people, noble people, notable people, people who had…”