15 Bible Verses about People Releasing Others

Pilate said to him, "You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have power to release you, and power to crucify you?"

Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release for the crowd any one prisoner whom they wanted.

Now at the feast he was accustomed to release for them one prisoner whom they requested.

But you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

But they shouted, "Crucify him, crucify him!"

So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release for you, Barabbas or Jesus who is called Christ?"

The governor answered them, "Which of the two do you want me to release to you?" They said, "Barabbas!"

But Pilate answered them, "Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

I will therefore chastise him and release him."

But they were insistent, demanding with loud voices that he be crucified. And their voices prevailed.

From then on Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, "If you let this man go, you are not Caesar's friend. Anyone who makes himself a king sets himself against Caesar."

When he had seized him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people.

And Agrippa said to Festus, "This man could have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar."

And when they had examined me, they were willing to release me because there was no ground for putting me to death.

Women received back their dead, raised to life again. Others were tortured and refused to be released, so that they might gain a better resurrection.