read the link before you answer...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barabbas
2006-07-21 05:30:29 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Something about this part just rings true to me...
Benjamin Urrutia, co-author with Guy Davenport of The Logia of Yeshua: The Sayings of Jesus agrees completely with Maccoby and others who aver that Yeshua Bar Abba or Jesus Barabbas must be none other than Jesus of Nazareth, and that the choice between two prisoners is a fiction. However, Urrutia opposes the notion that Jesus may have either led or planned a violent insurrection. Jesus was a strong advocate of "turning the other cheek" - which means not submission but strong and courageous, though nonviolent, defiance and resistance. Jesus, in this view, must have been the planner and leader of the Jewish nonviolent resistance to Pilate's plan to set up Roman Eagle standards on Jerusalem's Temple Mount. The story of this successful resistance is told by Josephus — who, curiously, does not say who was the leader, but does tell of Pilate's crucifixion of Jesus just two paragraphs later...
2006-07-21 05:33:24 · update #1
sweet ivy you didn't read the link like I said!!!!!
2006-07-21 05:33:48 · update #2
Quoting the bible as proof is stupid since I could quote the accounts of all 4 gospels and they would not be the same on this. They might be close, but there will be differences. So why the differences? My answer is plagiarism. When you are borrowing from other people's works, you change a few parts so you're not plagiarizing and it's your own.
2006-07-21 05:45:51 · update #3
Interesting Wikipedia article, but this quote proves Jesus and Barabbas were two separate people:
Matthew 27:"26 Then he released Barabbas to them; and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered Him to be crucified."
Jesus couldn't have been let go AND scourged then crucified. There's no Biblical account of the Romans and Pharisees chasing after Jesus with whips, a cross bar, and nails!
2006-07-21 05:41:14 · answer #1 · answered by Suzanne: YPA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no count number the way you study the Bible, Pilate feels like a very lifelike guy, faraway from a brutal dictator that some Christian scholars make him out to be. To get a 2d opinion, and to contain Jews interior the alternative making procedure, he even sends Jesus to Herod. Pilate knew that Jesus changed into probability free and that extremist Jews were attempting to get him killed. yet he also feared a insurrection. So being a sensible guy and by using twist of destiny having yet another notorious criminal in his reformatory also time-honored as Jesus Barabbas (Jesus the Son of God), he done both projects. in all probability, he had Jesus Barabbas crucified instead of Jesus Christ and changed into able to declare 'certainly' that "Jesus" the Son of God (Barabbas) were crucified. in accordance to the e book, The Hiram Key, written by using Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, "... one only needs to have a rudimentary understanding of the language of the time to maintain in mind that 'Barabbas' isn't a popularity in any respect yet a identify meaning precisely 'Son of God'! 'Bar' skill 'son of' and 'Abba' actually skill 'father', yet its utilization changed into, and many times nonetheless is, a connection with the daddy; it is, God."
2016-10-15 01:18:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
By the way, I did read the link and it only proves further to me that Jesus & Barabbas were absolutley two different people. And even if it didn't it wouldn't change my mind in any way. As far as I am concerned if the bible says they were not the same then they were not the same.
Haven't you ever heard the children's song.
If Jesus said it I believe it, His word it cannot lie.
If it's written in the bible, I'll believe it till I die.
Tho the mountains be removed and cast into the sea.
His word will live forever, even through eternity.
Jesus said except we become as little children we can't enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Maybe you should just try to find reasons to believe in him as hard as you try to find reason not to. You may surprise yourself.
God Bless You.
2006-07-21 05:48:03 · answer #3 · answered by Blessed 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Would Jesus be a thief? The church offered to free Barabbas and crucify Jesus instead. Barabbas was a human being and a murderer/thief. Jesus Christ was the Messiah sent by God a spirit in a perfect human form and without sin. That is like you claim God and Satan are one in the same???! NO wrong answer.
The two were not the same person.
2006-07-21 05:38:59 · answer #4 · answered by isbros 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO!! barabbas was an murderer put in jail and to be crucified for his crimes...Jesus has never sinned but He was crucified in barabbas's place not only because thats what the people wanted but because if Jesus wasn't crucified there would be no way for us to spend eternity with God we would all be burning in Hell forever because of our sins....
2006-07-21 05:34:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, Barabbas was a thief, if I'm not mistaken....oh, by the way, being brought up as a Catholic, I didn't think the link was relevant...sorry man...
2006-07-21 05:32:28 · answer #6 · answered by sweet ivy lyn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No
2006-07-21 05:34:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not at all
2006-07-21 05:34:11 · answer #8 · answered by kindigari a 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋