LUKE 23:18-25 Verses in the Bible. Barabbas was a murderous traitor. Then, Jesus came and died in our place, and set us free from eternal death. 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). When Jesus breathed His last, the centurion who was present said, “Truly this Man was the Son of God.” The supernatural events that happened at the death of Jesus made those present to recognize that He was not just a man. Pope Benedict XVI, in his 2011 book Jesus of Nazareth, dismisses this reading, since the Greek word "ochlos" in Mark means "crowd", rather than "Jewish people". No similar custom is mentioned in any extrabiblical accounts, nor is there a precedent for such a practice in biblical or extrabiblical sources; this notable absence, Dimont argues, makes the basis for the narrative incredible and difficult to believe. St Mark and St Luke add that Barabbas had committed murder in … Download story: Barabbas or Jesus? Directed by Richard Fleischer. They doubt a Christian writer would invent a similar name for a criminal, practically equating Christ with a criminal, if he were fictionalizing the story for a polemical or theological purpose. In Pär Lagerkvist, novel Barabbas is a fictional story of how Barabbas becomes a Christian. [15] But the reverse is also possible, i.e. Matthew 27:16 refers to him as a notorious prisoner, and this suggests that this may not have been the first time he was in prison. So now we had two men named Jesus, each a "son of the father", but opposite fathers, it would seem. I am trying out this new little way of doing facts on Bible characters. In this lesson we will look at who Barabbas in the Bible was and the life lessons we can learn from him. [18], A minority of scholars, including Stevan Davies, Hyam Maccoby and Horace Abram Rigg, have contended that Barabbas and Jesus were the same person. "[15] Further, Dimont argues against the believability of the Barabbas story by noting that the alleged custom of privilegium Paschale, "the privilege of Passover", where a criminal is set free, is only found in the Gospels. Download the story: The-story-of-the-prisoner-Barabbas.pdf. Barabbas is a patronym, a family name, like the patronymn of Peter, who was known as Simon Bar-Jonah. For Jesus it meant more suffering and a brutal, bloody death on the cross. If we are not careful, we can even fall into a similar trap today. Jesus had always referred to himself as the Son of the Father (and his adversaries had always refused to acknowledge that he was). According to Jewish historian Max Dimont, the story of Barabbas as related in the gospels lacks credibility from both the Roman and Jewish standpoint. 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