BARABBAS, a remarkable thief, guilty besides of sedition and murder, and prefer’d to Jesus Christ by the Jews, when Pilate asked them at the feast of the Passover which of the two they would have delivered to them, Jesus John xviii. 40.or Barabbas. Origen says1, that in many Copies Barabbas was called Jesus likewise. The Armenian has the same reading, Whom will ye that I deliver unto you, Jesus Barabbas, or Jesus; who is called Christ.
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Origen. in Matth. tract. 35. p. 125. B. ↩