Now at festival time the governor was accustomed to release for the people any prisoner whom they chose,

and at this time there was a notorious prisoner named Barabbas.

But when the slave went out he met a fellow-slave of his who owed him twenty dollars, and he caught him by the throat and began to choke him, saying, 'Pay me what you owe!'

So his fellow-slave threw himself down before him, and begged him, 'Give me time, and I will pay you.'

When his fellow-slaves saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed, and they went to their master and reported the whole matter to him.

Ought you not to have taken pity on your fellow-slave, as I did on you?'

And he went out into the gateway, and another maid saw him, and said to the men there, "This fellow was with Jesus the Nazarene!"