"What are we to do to these men?" they asked one another. "That a remarkable sign has been given through them is obvious to every one living in Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.
'Because no one has hired us,' they answered. 'You also may go into my vineyard,' he said.
At that time they had a notorious prisoner called Barabbas.
For I will myself give you words, and a wisdom which all your opponents together will be unable to resist or defy.
This, indeed, was why the crowd met him--because people had heard that he had given this sign of his mission.
Yet they were quite unable to withstand the wisdom and the inspiration with which he spoke.