Matteo 27:21

21 E il governatore prese a dir loro: Qual de’ due volete che vi liberi? E quelli dissero: Barabba.

Matteo 27:21 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 27:21

The governor answered and said unto them
A second time, after some time had been allowed and taken up to consider of the matter, and which the chief priests and elders improved among the people against Jesus.

Whether of the twain will ye that I release unto you?
for as these two were proposed, one of them must be released; and it lay in the breast of the people to choose which they would:

they said, Barabbas;
so that Christ was not only numbered among, and reckoned with transgressors, but he was accounted worse than the worst of them; a seditious person, a robber, and a murderer was preferred before him: see ( Acts 3:14 ) .

Matteo 27:21 In-Context

19 Or mentre egli sedeva in tribunale, la moglie gli mandò a dire: Non aver nulla a che fare con quel giusto, perché oggi ho sofferto molto in sogno a cagion di lui.

20 Ma i capi sacerdoti e gli anziani persuasero le turbe a chieder Barabba e far perire Gesù.

21 E il governatore prese a dir loro: Qual de’ due volete che vi liberi? E quelli dissero: Barabba.

22 E Pilato a loro: Che farò dunque di Gesù detto Cristo? Tutti risposero: Sia crocifisso.

23 Ma pure, riprese egli, che male ha fatto? Ma quelli viepiù gridavano: Sia crocifisso!