John 18:40
Good News Translation
They answered him with a shout, "No, not him! We want Barabbas!" (Barabbas was a bandit.)

New Revised Standard Version
They shouted in reply, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a bandit.

Contemporary English Version
They shouted, "No, not him! We want Barabbas." Now Barabbas was a terrorist.

New American Bible
They cried out again, “Not this one but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then cried they all again, saying: Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then cried they all again, saying: Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.

Matthew 27:16,26 And he had then a notorious prisoner that was called Barabbas. . . .

Mark 15:7,15 And there was one called Barabbas, who was put in prison with some seditious men, who in the sedition had committed murder. . . .

Luke 23:18,19,25 But the whole multitude together cried out, saying: Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas: . . .

Acts 3:13,14 The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus, whom you indeed delivered up and denied before the face of Pilate, when he judged he should be released. . . .

Context
Jesus Before Pilate
39But you have a custom that I should release one unto you at the Pasch. Will you, therefore, that I release unto you the king of the Jews? 40Then cried they all again, saying: Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.
Cross References
Matthew 26:55
In that same hour, Jesus said to the multitudes: You are come out, as it were to a robber, with swords and clubs to apprehend me. I sat daily with you, teaching in the temple: and you laid not hands on me.

Acts 3:14
But you denied the Holy One and the Just: and desired a murderer to be granted unto you.

John 18:39
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