Barabbas : in Christian mythology, a robber & murderer named Barabbas (‘son of the master’ in Aramaic) was held in jail by the Roman authorities of Judea when they were led to arrest Jesus, the Son of God. When Pontius Pilate, the Roman procurator who annually released a prisoner at the Jewish festival of Passover, offered to release Jesus, ‘the entire Jewish community’ proclaims this Christian myth, held Him a worse criminal than Barabbas & voted for His death & Barabbas’ release implying Jews are genetically vile. The most actively or passively approved or not disapproved of the countless barbarities (which Christ wants uprooted from human nature) resulting from this bigotry was executed under Hitler.
... was accustomed to release for the crowd any one prisoner whom they wanted.' [Mat 27:16] And they had then a notorious prisoner, called Barabbas. [Mat 27:17] So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release for you, Barabbas or Jesus who is called Christ?" [Mat 27:18] For he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up. Page 83 ... suffered much over him today in a dream." [Mat 27:20] Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the people to ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus. [Mat 27:21] The governor again said to them, "Which of the two do you want me to release for you?" And they said, "Barabbas." [Mat 27:22] Pilate said to them, "Then what shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?" They all said, "Let him be crucified... yourselves." [Mat 27:25] And all the people answered, "His blood be on us and on our children!" The cruel preparation of Jesus for the crucifixion [Mat 27:26] Then he released for them Barabbas, and having scourged* Jesus, delivered him to be crucified. [Mat 27:27] Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the praetorium, and they gathered the whole battalion before him. [Mat ...
... example, when Christ was sentenced, Pilate had the right to pardon one of the four condemned. He asked the Jews whom they wanted to be freed. They wanted the robber Barabbas to be released and not Christ. Nowadays scholars say that Barabbas was not a robber but a national hero, or, if a robber, one like Robin Hood, I suppose, or else a political opponent. At any rate, a romantic robber was preferred to ...
... "Freedom, equality, brotherhood," cried the French revolutionists, but in truth freedom only has been practised with a dose of equality; as for brotherhood, only a brotherhood of Cain was founded—and of Barabbas. Sometimes it calls itself a Trust or Combine and sometimes the Concert of Europe. 325) "Since liberty has failed," cries the advanced thought of Europe, "let us try liberty cum equality or, since ...
... brotherhood," cried the French revolutionists, but in truth freedom only has been practised with a dose of equality; as for brotherhood, Page 304 only a brotherhood of Cain was founded—and of Barabbas. Sometimes it calls itself a Trust or Combine and sometimes the Concert of Europe. 326—"Since liberty has failed," cries the advanced thought of Europe, "let us try liberty cum equality or, since ...
... m, equality, brotherhood," cried the French revolutionists, but in truth freedom only has been practised with a dose of equality; as for brotherhood, only a brotherhood of Cain was founded—and of Barabbas. Sometimes it calls itself a Trust or Combine and sometimes the Concert of Europe. 325—"Since liberty has failed," cries the advanced thought of Europe, "let us try liberty cum equality or, since ...
... without bringing in Parkinson's insight we should be able to realise Pilate's psychology vis-a-vis the anger of the Jews. When they were so infuriated with Jesus that they would rather free a man like Barabbas who was then in prison on a charge of rioting and murder, and when Pilate was so "anxious to placate the crowd" (Mark 15:15) 210 as to waive his own conviction of the offender's innocence, it was ...
... wish to be saved, and the crowd condemned Jesus to death by ; __________ * blasphemy: an act or words which insult God or a holy place, Page 22 shouting the name of a criminal, Barabbas to be freed. Since the execution of a non-Roman meant crucifixion, this was his sentence. First, however, Jesus was scourged or whipped and then was made to carry the horizontal part of the cross ...
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