21 Bible Verses about People Releasing Others

'Surely if thou hast remembered me with thee, when it is well with thee, and hast done (I pray thee) kindness with me, and hast made mention of me unto Pharaoh, then hast thou brought me out from this house,

and by thy sword dost thou live, and thy brother dost thou serve; and it hath come to pass when thou rulest, that thou hast broken his yoke from off thy neck.'

and God Almighty give to you mercies before the man, so that he hath sent to you your other brother and Benjamin; and I, when I am bereaved -- I am bereaved.'

and he saith, 'Send me away, for the dawn hath ascended:' and he saith, 'I send thee not away, except thou hast blessed me.'

Is not this the fast that I chose -- To loose the bands of wickedness, To shake off the burdens of the yoke, And to send out the oppressed free, And every yoke ye draw off?

Hastened hath a wanderer to be loosed, And he doth not die at the pit, And his bread is not lacking.

Pilate, therefore, saith to him, 'To me dost thou not speak? hast thou not known that I have authority to crucify thee, and I have authority to release thee?'

And at the feast the governor had been accustomed to release one to the multitude, a prisoner, whom they willed,

And at every feast he was releasing to them one prisoner, whomsoever they were asking;

and ye have a custom that I shall release to you one in the passover; will ye, therefore, that I shall release to you the king of the Jews?'

Pilate again then -- wishing to release Jesus -- called to them,

they therefore having been gathered together, Pilate said to them, 'Whom will ye I shall release to you? Barabbas or Jesus who is called Christ?'

and the governor answering said to them, 'Which of the two will ye that I shall release to you?' And they said, 'Barabbas.'

and Pilate answered them, saying, 'Will ye that I shall release to you the king of the Jews?'

having chastised, therefore, I will release him,'

And he a third time said unto them, 'Why, what evil did he? no cause of death did I find in him; having chastised him, then, I will release him.'

From this time was Pilate seeking to release him, and the Jews were crying out, saying, 'If this one thou mayest release, thou art not a friend of Caesar; every one making himself a king, doth speak against Caesar.'

whom also having seized, he did put in prison, having delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him, intending after the passover to bring him forth to the people.

and Agrippa said to Festus, 'This man might have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.'

who, having examined me, were wishing to release me, because of their being no cause of death in me,

Women received by a rising again their dead, and others were tortured, not accepting the redemption, that a better rising again they might receive,