But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitudes that they should ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus.
Then they all cried again, saying, “Not this Man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.
But the chief priests stirred up the crowd, so that he should rather release Barabbas to them.
Now it happened, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You will surely die!
The governor answered and said to them, “Which of the two do you want me to release to you?” They said, “Barabbas!”
And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and persuaded both Jews and Greeks.