⁷ One of the prisoners at that time was Barabbas, a revolutionary who had committed murder in an uprising.

²⁵ As they had requested, he released Barabbas, the man in prison for insurrection and murder. But he turned Jesus over to them to do as they wished.

¹⁸ Then a mighty roar rose from the crowd, and with one voice they shouted, “Kill him, and release Barabbas to us!” ¹⁹ (Barabbas was in prison for taking part in an insurrection in Jerusalem against the government, and for murder.)

¹⁶ This year there was a notorious prisoner, a man named Barabbas.^[a]