21 Bible Verses about People Releasing Others

But keep me in mind when things go well for you, and be good to me and say a good word for me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison:

By your sword will you get your living and you will be your brother's servant; but when your power is increased his yoke will be broken from off your neck.

And may God, the Ruler of all, give you mercy before the man, so that he may give you back your other brother and Benjamin. If my children are to be taken from me; there is no help for it.

And he said to him, Let me go now, for the dawn is near. But Jacob said, I will not let you go till you have given me your blessing.

Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?

The prisoner, bent under his chain, will quickly be made free, and will not go down into the underworld, and his bread will not come to an end.

Then Pilate said to him, You say nothing to me? is it not clear to you that I have power to let you go free and power to put you to death on the cross?

Now at the feast it was the way for the ruler to let free to the people one prisoner, at their selection.

Now at the feast every year he let one prisoner go free at their request.

But every year you make a request to me to let a prisoner go free at the Passover. Is it your desire that I let the King of the Jews go free?

And Pilate again said to them that it was his desire to let Jesus go free.

So when they came together, Pilate said to them, Whom will you have? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is named Christ?

But the ruler made answer and said to them, Which of the two is it your pleasure that I let go free? And they said, Barabbas.

And Pilate said in answer to them, Is it your desire that I let the King of the Jews go free?

And so I will give him punishment and let him go.

And he said to them a third time, Why, what evil has he done? I see no reason for putting him to death: I will give him punishment and let him go.

Hearing this, Pilate had a desire to let him go free, but the Jews said in a loud voice, If you let this man go, you are not Caesar's friend: everyone who makes himself a king goes against Caesar.

And having taken him, he put him in prison, with four bands of armed men to keep watch over him; his purpose being to take him out to the people after the Passover.

And Agrippa said to Festus, This man might have been made free, if he had not put his cause before Caesar.

Who, when they had put questions to me, were ready to let me go free, because there was no cause of death in me.

Women had their dead given back to them living; others let themselves be cruelly attacked, having no desire to go free, so that they might have a better life to come;