Barabbas
And there was [one] named Barabbas, [which lay] bound with
them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed
murder in the insurrection....
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And [so] Pilate, willing to content the people, released
Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged
[him], to be crucified....
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But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that
they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus....
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In the Christian narrative of the Passion of Jesus,
Barabbas, according to Greek texts Jesus bar-Abbas,[1]
(Aramaic: בר-אבא, Bar-abbâ, "son of the father"), was the
insurrectionary whom Pontius Pilate freed at the Passover
feast in Jerusalem.
The penalty for Barabbas' crime was death by crucifixion,
but according to the four canonical gospels ...
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(son of Abba), a robber, Joh 18:40 who had committed murder in
an insurrection, Mr 15:7; Lu 28:18 in Jerusalem and was lying
in prison the time of the trial of Jesus before Pilate.p...
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i.e., son of Abba or of a father, a notorious robber whom
Pilate
proposed to condemn to death instead of Jesus, whom he
wished to
release, in accordance with the Roman custom (John
18:40; Mark
15:7; Luke 23:19). But the Jews were so bent on the
death of
Jesus that they demanded that Barabbas should be
pardoned (Matt.
27:16-26; Acts 3:14)....
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("son of the father.") A contrast to the true Son of the
Father! The Jews asked the murderous taker of life to be given
as a favor to them (it being customary to release one prisoner
at the passover), and killed the Prince of life! (Acts 3:14-
15.) A robber (John 18:40) who had committed murder in an
insurrection (Mark 15:7) and was cast into p...
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ba-rab'-as (Barabbas): For Aramaic Bar-abba = literally,
"son of the father," i.e. of the master or teacher. Abba in
the time of Jesus was perhaps a title of honor (Mt 23:9),
but became later a proper name. The variant Barrabban found
in the Harclean Syriac would mean "son of the rabbi or
teacher." Origen knew and does not absolutely condemn a...
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A prisoner released by Pilate
Mt 27:16-26; Mr 15:7-15; Lu 23:18-25; Joh 18:40; Ac
3:14...
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