Acts 3:14

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But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;

There was in prison a man called Barabbas, among some revolutionaries who in their outbreak had committed murder.

(He was a man who had been put in prison for a riot that had taken place in the city and for murder.)

This came from the Lord And seems marvelous to us'?"

But the high priests stirred up the crowd to get him to set Barabbas free for them instead.

But his countrymen hated him, and they sent a delegation after him to say, 'We do not want this man made king over us.'

(He was a man who had been put in prison for a riot that had taken place in the city and for murder.)

and how the high priests and our leading men gave him up to be sentenced to death, and had him crucified.

about sin, as shown in their not believing in me;

Then they shouted back, "No! Not him, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.

and though they could find no ground for putting him to death, they demanded of Pilate that he be executed.