The Roman governor, Pilate, was the only person who could legally sentence Jesus to death. So the Jewish leaders sent Jesus to him for a second trail, hoping he would be found guilty and put to death.

So he released Barabbas for them; and after flogging Jesus, he handed him over to be ... dishonoured and defenceless before the earthly judge. Pilate is not utterly evil. He knows that the ...

But when the people were offered an alternative - Barabbas, his name was - they bayed for this Jesus’s blood instead. And so Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea at the time, had no choice but to ...

Now, Trump is more popular than Jesus, but only among Christians. Rather than comparing Trump to Barabbas, I would instead compare Trump to Pontius Pilate. Both Trump and Pilate went out of their ...

In the New Testament of the Bible, Barabbas is a prisoner who was chosen by the crowd over Jesus to be released by Pontius ...