Barabbas

There was at that time a notorious prisoner being held, named Yeshua Bar-Abba.

So when a crowd had gathered, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to set free for you? Bar-Abba? or Yeshua, called `the Messiah'?"

But the head cohanim persuaded the crowd to ask for Bar-Abba's release and to have Yeshua executed on the stake.

"Which of the two do you want me to set free for you?" asked the governor. "Bar-Abba!" they answered.

Then he released to them Bar-Abba; but Yeshua, after having him whipped, he handed over to be executed on a stake.

There was in prison among the rebels who had committed murder during the insurrection a man called Bar-Abba. When the crowd came up and began ask

But the head cohanim stirred up the crowd to have him release Bar-Abba for them instead.

So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the mob, set Bar-Abba free for them; but he had Yeshua whipped and then handed him over to be executed on the stake.

But with one voice they shouted, “Away with this man! Give us Bar-Abba!”

But they yelled back, “No, not this man but Bar-Abba!” (Bar-Abba was a revolutionary.)