Stay alert, then, because you do not know when the owner of the house will return -- whether during evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or at dawn --

For they said, "Not during the feast, so there won't be a riot among the people."

During the feast it was customary to release one prisoner to the people, whomever they requested.

A man named Barabbas was imprisoned with rebels who had committed murder during an insurrection.

who will not receive in this age a hundred times as much -- homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, fields, all with persecutions -- and in the age to come, eternal life.