Barabbas

[nightman]

HERE IS SOME FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Let your imagination take over for a minute and go back to the morning That Barabbas was set free by Pilate. He had just seen the same crowd of people that were ready to kill him yesterday. Decide to set him free and kill this other guy that he does not even know instead.
As he is walking down the street FREE as a bird. He sees a restaurant and decides to get something to eat. After he gives his order and is sitting there waiting for his meal. He remembers to thank Allah for the miracle he just received. Then he over hears some of the conversations going on around him. Someone says you know that Jesus fellow they are going to kill today. I was there when he raised that little girl from the dead and gave her back to her mother. Someone else says I was there when he healed the blind man. Then another person says we were all there when he fed the five thousand.
Well, you can imagine how Barabbas was feeling right about now.
My question is. How disappointed do you think Jesus was? After he gets home with the Father and watches eleven of the twelve men he spent three years teaching love and forgiveness to fail to do just that. With this guy that SURLY would have been open to them after what he experienced. We know that such a thing didn’t happen because the Bible has nothing more to say about him after he was set free. Another question is do you think God would set a criminal and murderer free without a plan of salvation in place? I CAN understand how the disciples felt about losing their master and leader. Very angry, very doubtful about the future now that Jesus could lead them no more. But does that excuse their failure to do the Christian thing? Because of their human inability to forgive him. Barabbas missed out on the opportunity to spend eternity with
the Man who TRULY died for him and us.
THANK YOU, NIGHTMAN

 

[thistle]

HERE IS SOME FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Let your imagination take over for a minute and go back to the morning That Barabbas was set free by Pilate. He had just seen the same crowd of people that were ready to kill him yesterday. Decide to set him free and kill this other guy that he does not even know instead.
As he is walking down the street FREE as a bird. He sees a restaurant and decides to get something to eat. After he gives his order and is sitting there waiting for his meal. He remembers to thank Allah for the miracle he just received. Then he over hears some of the conversations going on around him. Someone says you know that Jesus fellow they are going to kill today. I was there when he raised that little girl from the dead and gave her back to her mother. Someone else says I was there when he healed the blind man. Then another person says we were all there when he fed the five thousand.
Well, you can imagine how Barabbas was feeling right about now.
My question is. How disappointed do you think Jesus was? After he gets home with the Father and watches eleven of the twelve men he spent three years teaching love and forgiveness to fail to do just that. With this guy that SURLY would have been open to them after what he experienced. We know that such a thing didn’t happen because the Bible has nothing more to say about him after he was set free. Another question is do you think God would set a criminal and murderer free without a plan of salvation in place? I CAN understand how the disciples felt about losing their master and leader. Very angry, very doubtful about the future now that Jesus could lead them no more. But does that excuse their failure to do the Christian thing? Because of their human inability to forgive him. Barabbas missed out on the opportunity to spend eternity with
the Man who TRULY died for him and us.
THANK YOU, NIGHTMAN

I try not to imagine past events that did not happen!

By the way why do you use the word Allah in your post?

 

[Andruschak]

“I, Barabbas, left town as fast as I could. The number of people, Roman and Jews, who hated my guts made a quick departure essential. As for the guy who took my place, too bad. Roman “justice” was a joke for anyone not a Roman. At that, even Romans were not safe from arbitrary justice. And don’t even let me get started about the slaves. Not that the Jews treated their slaves much better. Torture was normal. Crucifixion was SUPPOSED to be a very painful form of death. Better him then me.”

 

[puzzleannie]

there is a great movie dedicated to a meditation on this topic, used to be shown every year at Easter, Barrabas with Anthony Quinn, still highly recommended. Barabbas was a Jewish revolutionary so he would not have been praying to Allah. That term would have been anachronistic in 1st century Judaea.