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Barabbas and Me

David Mathis:

Murder and rebellion. Rebellion is the precise thing the leaders and the people are charging Jesus with when they say he is "misleading the people" (verse 14) and "saying that he himself is Christ, a king" (verse 2). And murder is an offense that makes it clear that Barabbas not only deserves to be in prison, but he deserves death. Genesis 9:6 taught, "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image." Barabbas is...