And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.
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Interpretation
Christ met death in its greatest terror. It was the death of the vilest malefactors.
Read with
This thought runs through Mark 15:15-19.
Glossary
- Barabbas Person
- I. e., son of Abba or of a father, a notorious robber whom Pilate proposed to condemn to death instead of Jesus, whom he wished to release, in accordance with the Roman custom ( John 18:40 ; Mark 15:7 ; Luke 23:19 ).