15 Bible Verses about People Releasing Others

Then Pilate said, "You will not speak to me? Do you not know it is in my power to release you or to crucify you?"

At festival time the governor was in the habit of releasing any one prisoner whom the crowd chose.

Now at festival time he used to release for them some prisoner whom they begged from him.

But it is your custom that I should release a prisoner for you at the passover. Is it your will that I release you the king of the Jews?"

Again Pilate addressed them, for he wanted to release Jesus,

so, when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, "Who do you want released? Jesus Bar-Abbas or Jesus the so-called 'Christ'?"

The governor said to them, "Which of the two do you want me to release for you?" "Bar-Abbas," they said.

Pilate replied, "Would you like me to release the king of the Jews for you?"

so I shall release him with a whipping."

He asked them a third time, "But what crime has he committed? I have found nothing about him that deserves death; so I shall release him with a whipping."

This made Pilate anxious to release him, but the Jews yelled, "If you release him, you are no friend of Caesar's! Anyone who makes himself a king is against Caesar!"

After arresting him he put him in prison, handing him over to a guard of sixteen soldiers, with the intention of producing him to the People after the passover.

"He might have been released," said Agrippa to Festus, "if he had not appealed to Caesar."

They meant to release me after examination, as I was innocent of any crime that deserved death.

Some were given back to their womankind, raised from the very dead; others were broken on the wheel, refusing to accept release, that they might obtain a better resurrection;