And they had then a well-known prisoner called Barabba.
And at the festival the governor used to release to the crowd one prisoner whom they wished.
So when they were assembled, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you wish I release to you? Barabba, or יהושע who is called Messiah?”
And there was one called Barabba, chained with his fellow rebels, who had committed murder in the uprising.
And he released the one they asked for, who for uprising and murder had been thrown into prison, but he handed יהושע over to their wishes.
Then they all shouted again, saying, “Not this One, but Barabba!” And Barabba was a robber.
“But you denied the Set-apart and Righteous One, and asked that a man, a murderer, be granted you.
who, though they know the righteousness of Elohim, that those who practise such deserve death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practise them.
Greet Andronikos and Junias, my relatives and my fellow prisoners, who are eminent among the emissaries, who also were in Messiah before me.
