(This was a man who had been put in prison for an insurrection that had taken place in the city and for murder.)
Now a man called Barabbas was in prison with the insurrectionists who had committed murder during the insurrection.
Then they all shouted out together, “Away with this fellow! Release Barabbas for us!”
They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man inciting our nation, forbidding us to pay taxes to Caesar and saying that he himself is the Messiah, a king.”
Pilate, wanting to release Jesus, addressed them again,
But they were insistent and said, “He stirs up the people by teaching throughout all Judea, from Galilee where he began even to this place.”
Then you are not the Egyptian who recently stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand assassins out into the wilderness?”
But you rejected the holy and righteous one and asked to have a murderer given to you,