21 Bible Verses about People Releasing Others

Therefore thou shalt think of me within thyself when it shall be well with thee, and show mercy, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh and bring me out of this house;

and by thy sword shalt thou live and shalt serve thy brother; yet there shall be a time when thou shalt have dominion, and thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.

And God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may let your other brother go, and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my sons, I am bereaved.

And he said, Let me go, for the day breaks. And he said, I will not let thee go except thou bless me.

Is not rather the fast that I have chosen, to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the ties of oppression, to release into freedom those who are broken, and that ye break every yoke?

The prisoner is anxious that he may be loosed and that he should not die in the pit nor that his bread should fail.

Then Pilate said unto him, Speakest thou not unto me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee and have power to release thee?

Now at that feast the governor was accustomed to release unto the people a prisoner, whoever they desired.

Now at that feast it was customary that he release unto them one prisoner, whoever they desired.

But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover; will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?

Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spoke again to them.

Therefore when they were gathered together, Pilate said unto them, Whom desire ye that I release unto you? Barabbas or Jesus who is called Christ?

The governor answered and said unto them, Which of the two desire ye that I release unto you? They said, Barabbas.

And Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?

I will therefore chastise him and release him.

And he said unto them the third time, Why, what evil has he done? I have found no cause of death in him; I will therefore chastise him and let him go.

And from then on Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, If thou let this man go, thou art not Caesar's friend; whosoever makes himself a king speaks against Caesar.

And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him, intending after the Passover to bring him forth to the people.

Then Agrippa said unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty if he had not appealed unto Caesar.

who, when they had examined me, would have let me go because there was no cause of death in me.

women received their dead raised to life again, and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection;