one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder.
There was one called Bar-Abba, bound with those who had made insurrection, men who in the insurrection had committed murder.
But they all cried out together, saying, *Away with this man! Release to us Bar-Abba!*--
They began to accuse him, saying, *We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Messiah, a king.*
Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Yeshua,
But they insisted, saying, *He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Yehudah, beginning from the Galil even to this place.*
Aren't you then the Egyptian, who before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the Assassins?*
But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,