94 Bible Verses about Barabbas

John 18:40 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

They cried out again, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.

Matthew 27:16 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And they had then a notorious prisoner called Barabbas.

Mark 15:6-15 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner for whom they asked. And among the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barabbas. And the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do as he usually did for them. And he answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?” For he perceived that it was out of envy that the chief priests had delivered him up. ...

Mark 15:15 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.

Luke 23:19 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city and for murder.

Matthew 27:21 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The governor again said to them, “Which of the two do you want me to release for you?” And they said, “Barabbas.”

Mark 15:7 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And among the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barabbas.

Acts 3:14 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

Luke 23:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But they all cried out together, “Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas”—

Mark 15:11 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release for them Barabbas instead.

John 18:39 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ...

John 3:1-36 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...

Mark 15:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner for whom they asked.

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...

John 18:39-40 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?” They cried out again, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.

Luke 23:18-25 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But they all cried out together, “Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas”— a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city and for murder. Pilate addressed them once more, desiring to release Jesus, but they kept shouting, “Crucify, crucify him!” A third time he said to them, “Why? What evil has he done? I have found in him no guilt deserving death. I will therefore punish and release him.” ...

Matthew 27:26 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then he released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, delivered him to be crucified.

Matthew 27:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream.”

Matthew 27:15-26 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release for the crowd any one prisoner whom they wanted. And they had then a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?” For he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up. Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream.” ...

Acts 2:38 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

John 1:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Luke 23:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And they began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

Mark 15:1-47 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And as soon as it was morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council. And they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate. And Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” And he answered him, “You have said so.” And the chief priests accused him of many things. And Pilate again asked him, “Have you no answer to make? See how many charges they bring against you.” But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate was amazed. ...

Matthew 27:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus.

Matthew 27:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?”

Matthew 27:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And they had then a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?”

Matthew 27:16-26 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And they had then a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?” For he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up. Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream.” Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus. ...

Matthew 27:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release for the crowd any one prisoner whom they wanted.

Matthew 23:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

Ephesians 5:25-27 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Luke 23:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus over to their will.

Luke 1:37 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Mark 15:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For he perceived that it was out of envy that the chief priests had delivered him up.

Mark 15:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?”

Mark 15:7-15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And among the rebels in prison, who had committed murder in the insurrection, there was a man called Barabbas. And the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do as he usually did for them. And he answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?” For he perceived that it was out of envy that the chief priests had delivered him up. But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release for them Barabbas instead. ...

Mark 15:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And as soon as it was morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council. And they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate.

Matthew 27:25 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And all the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

Matthew 27:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Pilate said to them, “Then what shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?” They all said, “Let him be crucified!”

Matthew 27:20-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus. The governor again said to them, “Which of the two do you want me to release for you?” And they said, “Barabbas.”

Matthew 27:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up.

Jude 1:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy,

1 John 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

2 Peter 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.

1 Peter 3:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

Hebrews 9:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.

Hebrews 2:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But we see him who for a little while was made lower than the angels, namely Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.

1 Timothy 2:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.

Ephesians 5:27-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” ...

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

1 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.

Romans 8:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 6:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

Romans 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered;

Romans 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Acts 2:36 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”

John 15:13-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

John 6:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 1:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

Luke 23:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A third time he said to them, “Why? What evil has he done? I have found in him no guilt deserving death. I will therefore punish and release him.”

Luke 23:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Pilate addressed them once more, desiring to release Jesus,

Luke 23:18-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But they all cried out together, “Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas”— a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city and for murder.

Luke 23:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 23:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Neither did Herod, for he sent him back to us. Look, nothing deserving death has been done by him.

Luke 23:15-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Neither did Herod, for he sent him back to us. Look, nothing deserving death has been done by him. I will therefore punish and release him.” But they all cried out together, “Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas”— a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city and for murder. Pilate addressed them once more, desiring to release Jesus, ...

Luke 4:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,

Mark 15:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Pilate said to them, “Why? What evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Crucify him.”

Mark 15:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Pilate again said to them, “Then what shall I do with the man you call the King of the Jews?”

Mark 15:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do as he usually did for them.

Mark 15:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” And he answered him, “You have said so.”

Mark 12:1-44 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country. When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed. Again he sent to them another servant, and they struck him on the head and treated him shamefully. And he sent another, and him they killed. And so with many others: some they beat, and some they killed. ...

Matthew 27:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man's blood; see to it yourselves.”

Matthew 27:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he said, “Why? What evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Let him be crucified!”

Matthew 27:15-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release for the crowd any one prisoner whom they wanted. And they had then a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?” For he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up.

Matthew 26:50 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus said to him, “Friend, do what you came to do.” Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him.

Matthew 23:1-39 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat, so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, ...

Matthew 22:15-46 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him in his words. And they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are true and teach the way of God truthfully, and you do not care about anyone's opinion, for you are not swayed by appearances. Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?” But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, “Why put me to the test, you hypocrites? Show me the coin for the tax.” And they brought him a denarius. ...

Matthew 15:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:

Matthew 10:1-42 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction. The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, “Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans, ...

Matthew 9:1-38 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And getting into a boat he crossed over and came to his own city. And behold, some people brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven.” And behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming.” But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts? For which is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’? ...

Matthew 8:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When he came down from the mountain, great crowds followed him. And behold, a leper came to him and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. And Jesus said to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift that Moses commanded, for a proof to them.” When he had entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, appealing to him, ...

Matthew 7:13-14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...

Zechariah 13:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And if one asks him, ‘What are these wounds on your back?’ he will say, ‘The wounds I received in the house of my friends.’

Ezekiel 1:1-28 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the exiles by the Chebar canal, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. On the fifth day of the month (it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin), the word of the Lord came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the Chebar canal, and the hand of the Lord was upon him there. As I looked, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, and a great cloud, with brightness around it, and fire flashing forth continually, and in the midst of the fire, as it were gleaming metal. And from the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had a human likeness, ...

Joshua 24:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Genesis 2:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.