15 Bible Verses about People Releasing Others

Then Pilate said to him, "Do you refuse to speak to me? Do you not know that it is in my power to release you or to have you crucified?"

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

Now at festival time he used to set free for them one prisoner, whom they petitioned for.

But it is your custom to have me release one man for you at Passover time. Do you want me therefore to release the king of the Jews for you?"

But Pilate wanted to let Jesus go, and he called out to them again.

So when they gathered to ask this, Pilate said to them, "Which one do you want me to release for you, Barabbas, or Jesus, the so-called Christ?"

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

Pilate asked them, "Do you want me to set the king of the Jews free for you?"

So I will teach him a lesson and let him go."

And he said to them a third time, "Why, what has he done that is wrong? For I have found nothing about him to call for his death. So I will teach him a lesson and let him go."

This made Pilate try to find a way to let him go, but the Jews shouted, "If you let him go, you are no friend of the emperor's! Anyone who calls himself a king utters treason against the emperor!"

He had him seized and put in jail, with four squads of soldiers to guard him, meaning after the Passover to bring him out before the people.

"He might have been set at liberty," said Agrippa to Festus, "if he had not appealed to the emperor."

They examined me and were ready to let me go, as I was innocent of any crime that deserved death.

Women had their dead restored to them by resurrection. Others endured torture, and refused to accept release, that they might rise again to the better life.