“And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection. And the multitude crying aloud began to desire him to do as he had ever done unto them.”
Mark 15:7-8 KJV
As Mark recorded, “Now, Pilate was holding in custody a notorious criminal named Barabbas, one of the assassins who had committed murder in an uprising. The crowds gathered in front of Pilate’s judgment bench and asked him to release a prisoner to them, as was his custom.” In Aramaic Bar-Abbas means “son of a father” or “son who is like his father”. This is the picture of every son of Adam, our father. The true Son of the Father was crucified that day. One man wanted a political revolution, the Other a revolution of love filling the hearts of all men. It is hard for us to understand and comprehend fully the loving heart of God by sending His Son to die in the place of the sons of Adam including Bar-Abbas. This was to avert the judgment over mankind through the punishment that Jesus took. Therefore, as many as received Jesus Christ, to them He gave the right to become children of our Father, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. He Who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Behold what manner of love the Father has lavished upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. Amen!
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