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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Matthew 27:16

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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27:16 notorious prisoner . . . named Barabbas: Elsewhere he is called a “revolutionary” (Mark 15:7; John 18:40), a term that also denotes a robber or insurrectionist (see Luke 23:19). To the zealots, Barabbas was a hero.
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