15 Bible Verses about People Releasing Others

"Do you refuse to speak even to me?" asked Pilate; "do you not know that I have it in my power either to release you or to crucify you?"

"Now it was the Governor's custom at the Festival to release some one prisoner, whomsoever the populace desired;

Now at the Festival it was customary for Pilate to release to the Jews any one prisoner whom they might beg off from punishment;

But you have a custom that I should release one prisoner to you at the Passover. So shall I release to you the King of the Jews?"

But Pilate once more addressed them, wishing to set Jesus free.

So when they were now assembled Pilate appealed to them. "Whom shall I release to you," he said, "Barabbas, or Jesus the so-called Christ?"

So when the Governor a second time asked them, "Which of the two shall I release to you?" --they cried, "Barabbas!"

"Shall I release for you the King of the Jews?" answered Pilate.

I will therefore give him a light punishment and release him."

A third time he appealed to them: "Why, what crime has the man committed? I have discovered in him nothing that deserves death. I will therefore give him a light punishment and release him."

Upon receiving this answer, Pilate was for releasing Him. But the Jews kept shouting, "If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar's. Every one who sets himself up as king declares himself a rebel against Caesar."

He had him arrested and lodged in jail, handing him over to the care of sixteen soldiers; and intended after the Passover to bring him out again to the people.

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

They, after they had sharply questioned me, were willing to set me at liberty, because they found no offence in me for which I deserve to die.

Women received back their dear ones alive from the dead; and others were put to death with torture, refusing the deliverance offered to them--that they might secure a better resurrection.