According to the New Testament, Barabbas (fl. 1st cent.) was a Jewish bandit and rabble-rouser who was imprisoned by the Roman occupation, only to be chosen over Jesus by a crowd to be pardoned by Roman governor Pontius Pilate at the Passover feast in Jerusalem. Biblical account. According to all four canonical gospels, there was a prevailing Passover custom in Jerusalem that allowed Pontius Pilate, the praefectus or governor of Judea, to commute one prisoner's death sentence by popular acclaim.
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According to the New Testament, Barabbas (fl. 1st cent.) was a Jewish bandit and rabble-rouser who was imprisoned by the Roman occupation, only to be chosen over Jesus by a crowd to be pardoned by Roman governor Pontius Pilate at the Passover feast in Jerusalem. Biblical account. According to all four canonical gospels, there was a prevailing Passover custom in Jerusalem that allowed Pontius Pilate, the praefectus or governor of Judea, to commute one prisoner's death sentence by popular acclaim.
