15 Bible Verses about People Releasing Others

Then Pilate said to Him, "Do you refuse to speak to me? Do you not know that I have it in my power to set you free or to crucify you?"

Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to set any prisoner free whom the people wanted.

Now at the time of the feast Pilate usually set a prisoner free whom the people requested.

Now you have a custom to have me set one man free at your Passover time. So do you wish me to set the king of the Jews free?"

Then Pilate again appealed to them, for He wanted to let Jesus go.

So when they met for this purpose, Pilate asked them, "Which one do you want me to set free, Barabbas, or Jesus, the so-called Christ?"

Still the governor answered, "Which of the two do you want me to set free for you?" And they said, "Barabbas."

Then Pilate answered them by asking, "Do you want me to set the king of the Jews free for you?"

So I will flog Him and let Him go."

Then a third time he spoke to them, "Why, what wrong has He done? I have found nothing in Him deserving the death penalty. So I will flog Him and let Him go."

Because of this Pilate kept on trying to set Him free, but the Jews shouted, "If you set Him free, you are no friend to the emperor. Anyone who claims to be a king is uttering treason against the emperor!"

He had him seized and put into prison, and turned him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, planning after the Passover to bring him out again to the people.

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

After examining me the Romans wanted to set me free, because I was innocent of any crime that deserved the death penalty.

Women by a resurrection received their dead again; others endured tortures, because they would not accept release, that they might rise to a better life.