Mark 15:7

and there was one who was called Bar-aba, who was bound with the makers of sedition, they who murder in the sedition had committed.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection.

In Context

6But he was accustomed at every festival to release to them of the bound one whom they requested;

8And the people cried out and began to demand, that as he was used he would do to them.

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Cross References

Matthew 27:16But there was (then) bound a notorious prisoner who was called Bar-aba.

Luke 23:25And he released to them him who, for insurrection and murder, had been thrown into the house of the chained, whom they had asked: but Jeshu he delivered to their will.

Matthew Henry on Mark 15:2-15

Christ Brought before Pilate. 1 And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate. 2 And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answering said unto him, Thou sayest it. 3 And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered nothing. 4 And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee. 5 But… Read the whole commentary →

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