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Matthew 27:20

Good News Translation

The chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask Pilate to set Barabbas free and have Jesus put to death.

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and as soon as I had finished all that the Lord had commanded me to speak, they grabbed me and shouted, “You ought to be killed for this!

But Pilate asked the crowd, “Which one of these two do you want me to set free for you?” “Barabbas!” they answered.

But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to ask, instead, that Pilate set Barabbas free for them.

They answered him with a shout, “No, not him! We want Barabbas!” (Barabbas was a bandit.)

He held discussions in the synagogue every Sabbath, trying to convince both Jews and Greeks.