15 Bible Verses about People Releasing Others

Then Pilate said to him: Do you not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to crucify you, and authority to release you?

Now at the feast, the governor was in the habit of releasing to the multitude one prisoner, whom they chose.

Now it was his custom to release to them, at the feast, one prisoner, whomever they desired.

But you have a custom, that I release to you one during the passover. Are you willing, then, that I should release to you the king of the Jews?

Therefore Pilate, desiring to release Jesus, again called to them.

Therefore, while they were together, Pilate said to them: Which do you wish me to release to you, Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ?

The governor answered and said to them: Which of the two do you wish me to release to you? They replied: Barabbas.

But Pilate answered them, saying: Do you wish me to release to you the King of the Jews?

I will, therefore, chastise him, and release him.

He said to them the third time: Why, what evil has he done? I have found nothing in him worthy of death. I will, therefore, chastise him, and release him.

After this Pilate sought to release him. But the Jews cried out, saying: If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. Every one that makes himself a king, speaks against Caesar

And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four tetrads of soldiers to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the passover.

And Agrippa said to Festus: This man could have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed to Caesar

They, after examination, would have released me, for they found no cause of death in me.

Women received their dead raised to life again: but others were beat to death, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection;