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They wanted a Messiah who would bring them outward freedom by the use of outward weapons, and so they all shouted 'Not this man but Barabbas! The whole history of the nation was condensed in that one cry their untamable obstinacy, their blindness to the light of God, their fierce grasp of the promises which they did not understand, their hard worldliness, their cruel patriotism, their unquenchable hatred of their oppressors, which was only equalled by their unquenchable hatred of those who showed them the only true way for deliverance.
And he can't have any home, for he sits in the street. And he's got a ticket on his back to say 'Blind, and 'Taught at the Blind School. And as I passed he was reading quite loud. And I heard him say, 'Now Barabbas was a robber. Oh, he is such a poor man! And you know, Regie, he must be good, for we don't sit reading our Bibles all day long."
'Thine own nation ... hath delivered Thee unto me, said Pilate who would have released his prisoner, had not the Jews prevented it. 'If thou let this Man go, thou art not Caesar's friend, they cried, thus compelling Pilate, at the risk of being reported as a traitor to his Emperor, to crucify Jesus of Nazareth, and to free Barabbas.
The only foundation for such an idea to found in the Bible is contained in the head note to Mark xv, which is quite unwarranted by the text. In not one of the four narratives is there so much as a hint that he fainted under the burden. Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he deliver him to be crucified. Matthew xxvii, 26.
So Pilate said to the crowd, 'Shall I let Jesus go? Then the priests told the people what to say, and they shouted, 'Not this man, but Barabbas. Pilate wanted very much to let Jesus go, and he said, 'What shall I do then with Jesus? The crowd shouted, 'Let Him be crucified! Crucify Him! Crucify Him! 'Why, said Pilate, 'what has He done wrong? He does not deserve to die.
They got Barabbas: have you well considered what a fund of purblind obduracy, of opaque flunkyism grown truculent and transcendent; what an eye for the phylacteries, and want of eye for the eternal noblenesses; sordid loyalty to the prosperous Semblances, and high-treason against the Supreme Fact, such a vote betokens in these natures?
Barabbas is triumphant everywhere; and the final use he makes of his triumph is to lead us all to suicide with heroic gestures and resounding lies. Not that we should nowadays dream of claiming any supernatural authority for him, much less the technical authority which attaches to an educated modern philosopher and jurist.
Thoroughly humiliated and quite helpless, he gives sentence, and so in spite of the governor's desperate efforts to escape the stigma of his awful crime, it goes down to all the ages that Jesus was "crucified under Pontius Pilate." "And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas." ST LUKE xxiii. 18. You have heard a crowd of people cry out all at once.
The ass was his. "Now for the father and son!" "Right, Barabbas." The dice fell. Barabbas rejoiced. Dismas was winner. "A third time for the woman!" "Right, Barabbas." He threw the dice; they fell on his cloak. "What is that? The dice have no marks! Dismas, stop this joke! You've changed the dice." When he took them up in his hand the black marks were there again all right.
Surprised but not defenseless, Barabbas met the attack head on. Whirling his weapon with savage skill, he struck Kalus square in the face with the butt of his spear. Stunned, Kalus fell to the ground, and before he could move, found the point of Barabbas' spear held threateningly only inches from his throat. And so, as quickly as it started, the battle was ended.
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