15 Bible Verses about People Releasing Others

Jesus made no answer. So Pilate said to him. "Do you not speak to me? Do you not know that I have power to release you, or power to crucify you?"

Now it was the Governor's custom, during the Passover, to release to the people any one prisoner whom they selected.

Now at the time of the feast it was customary to release to them a prisoner, whatever one they asked for.

"I find no crime in this man. Now it is a custom of yours that I release one prisoner to you at the time of the Passover feast. Do you wish me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

Then Pilate spoke to them again, because he wished to release Jesus;

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

So when Pilate said to them, "Which of the two do you want me to release unto you?" they said, "Barabbas."

he asked them, "Do you wish me to release the King of the Jews?"

I will therefore, after flogging him, release him."

For the third time he appealed to them. "But what crime has he committed? I have found in him nothing that deserves death. I will therefore flog him, and let him go."

After that Pilate began to seek to release him, but the Jews shouted out. "If you release this man you are no friend of the Emperor. Any man who makes himself out to be king is a rebel against the Emperor."

He had him arrested and thrown in prison, and put under guard of sixteen soldiers. He intended, after the Passover, to bring him forth to the people.

And Agrippa said to Festus, "If he had not appealed to Caesar, he might have been set free."

"Then when they had examined me they wanted to set me at liberty because there was no cause of death in me.

Woman received their dear ones alive from the dead; and others were broken on the wheel, not accepting the offered deliverance, in order that they might obtain a better resurrection.