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Barabbas Scripture - Mark 15:7

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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Barabbas Scripture - Mark 15:15

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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Barabbas Scripture - Matthew 27:20

But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbas, and destroy Jesus....

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Barabbas in Wikipedia

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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Barabbas in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(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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Barabbas in Easton's Bible Dictionary

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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Barabbas in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("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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Barabbas in Hitchcock's Bible Names

son of shame...

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Barabbas in Naves Topical Bible

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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Barabbas in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

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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