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Barabbas (/ b ə ˈ r æ b ə s /; Biblical Greek: Bαραββᾶς, romanized: Barabbās) [1] was, according to the New Testament, a prisoner who rebelled against the Roman occupying forces and who was chosen over Jesus by a crowd in Jerusalem to be pardoned and released by Roman governor Pontius Pilate at the Passover feast.
Barnes’ Notes on the Bible says that he was “surnamed Justus” or who “was called Justus”: “This is a Latin name, meaning just, and was probably given him on account of his distinguished integrity.” [citation needed] The Anglican Bible scholar J. B. Lightfoot “supposes that he [Joseph Barsabbas] was the son of Alphaeus and ...
This theory is based on the fact that Barabbas's full name was given in early writings as Jesus Barabbas, [25] meaning literally Jesus, son of the father. The theory is that this name originally referred to Jesus himself, and that when the crowd asked Pilate to release "Jesus, son of the father" they were referring to Jesus himself, as ...
Each of the seven brothers endured the same torture. The torment of the sons was watched by their tenacious and rather stoic mother, who had lost all her sons. The Martyrdom of the Seven Maccabees in the Golden Legend (1497). The narrator mentions that the mother "was the most remarkable of all, and deserves to be remembered with special honour.
A man who just finished serving most of a 15 year prison sentence in Florida has confessed to the fatal stabbings of a pregnant mother and her son in Alabama in 2002, authorities said Friday.
According to the Talmud, Amathlai (Mishnaic Hebrew: אֲמַתְלַאי ʾĂmaṯlaʾy) was the name of the mother of Abraham. According to this tradition, she was the daughter of a man named Karnebo, and the wife of Terah, the father of Abraham. The name of Abraham's mother is not mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.
A 21-year-old Mississippi mother was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after she admitted to repeatedly slamming her 2-month-old daughter on the concrete in what the ...
He is mentioned in Acts 15:22, where he and Silas are described as a "leading men among the brothers" ().Judas and Silas were delegated the task of accompanying Paul and Barnabas to Antioch and delivering the Council's letter resolving the controversy surrounding gentile circumcision.