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What does Barabbas mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (Christianity) In the accounts of the Passion of Christ, an insurrectionary whom Pontius Pilate freed at the Passover feast in Jerusalem, instead of Jesus.
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The early association of Barabbas and books will be noticed.
The first of the subject-notes in the last of the volumes deals with Barabbas.
She heard and shivered, and looked at the bed of straw, and on the great canvas of the Barabbas.
When they were not satisfied and demanded the release of Barabbas, he pronounced sentence.
But the people were unanimous in their demand for the release of Barabbas.
In fact, the story of Barabbas is more interesting and complicated than most preachers seem willing to acknowledge.

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