15 Bible Verses about People Releasing Others

But Jesus made no reply. So Pilate said to him: "Do you refuse to speak to me? Do not you know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?"

Now, at the Feast, the Governor was accustomed to grant the people the release of any one prisoner whom they might choose.

Now, at the Feast, Pilate used to grant the people the release of any one prisoner whom they might ask for.

It is, however, the custom for me to grant you the release of one man at the Passover Festival. Do you wish for the release of the King of the Jews?"

Pilate, however, wanting to release Jesus, called to them again;

So, when the people had collected, Pilate said to them: "Which do you wish me to release for you? Barabbas? Or Jesus who is called 'Christ'?"

The Governor, however, said to them: "Which of these two do you wish me to release for you?" "Barabbas," they answered.

He answered: "Do you want me to release the 'King of the Jews' for you?"

So I shall have him scourged, and then release him."

"Why, what harm has this man done?" Pilate said to them for the third time. "I have found nothing in him for which he could be condemned to death. So I will have him scourged, and then release him."

This made Pilate anxious to release him; but the Jews shouted: "If you release that man, you are no friend of the Emperor! Any one who makes himself out to be a King is setting himself against the Emperor!"

After seizing Peter, Herod put him in prison, and entrusted him to the keeping of four Guards of four soldiers each, intending, after the Passover, to bring him up before the people.

And, speaking to Festus, Agrippa added: "The man might have been discharged, if he had not appealed to the Emperor."

The Romans, when they had examined me, were ready to release me, because there was nothing in my conduct deserving death.

Women received back their dead raised to life. Some were tortured on the wheel, and refused release in order that they might rise to a better life.