I imagine you can count on one hand the number of events mentions in all 4 gospels. The synoptic gospels have a lot of overlap, but when you throw John in there and demand that all three of the synoptics record an event, you are eliminating most of the gospels content.
Pilate presenting Barabbas as the alternative "criminal" to save, to the Jewish crowd, Yeshua being the other "criminal", is one such section. All 4 gospels mention it and here is where the trouble begins.
Every Police Officer knows that if you interview 4 different people about events that happened during an intense time there will be variations in the story, throw in a couple or 60 years in between those events and Wow, the rate goes up and up, but if every minor detail agrees, the officer knows, these people got together beforehand, to cover up what really happened, they agreed on a "story".
The gospels do not agree on every detail, not because they are not true, but because they are true. Do you get it?
Now we come to Barabbas. Luke 23:19 says he was thrown into prison for rebellion and murder.
Matthew just calls him "notorious". (Matt. 27:16)
Mark says he took part in an insurrection and committed murder. (Mark 15:7)
John, written much later, says, "Now Barabbas was a robber." (John 18:40) Some translations replace robber with insurrectionist, but this is not right, the word appears 15 times in the Greek New Testament and is always translated "robber" or "thief".
To me this is not a contradiction but an expansion.
Satan came to steal, kill and destroy.
Satan is the ultimate rebel.
Barabbas is a notorious rebel who is willing to murder and steal to get what he wants.
Get the picture?
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