In all the four gospels; Matthew, Mark, Luke and John we learned that according to the custom, during the Passover celebration to release one prisoner – anyone the people wanted. The Pilate let them choose either Yeshua (Jesus) or one of the prisoners named Barabbas. The crowd demanded Barabbas to be released and Yeshua (Jesus) to be crucified. (Reference: Matthew 27, Mark 15, Luke 23, John 18)
The name Barabbas in Hebrew is בר אבא (Bar AaBa) meaning “Son of the Father”. We also know our Lord and saviour Yeshua (Jesus) is the “Son of the Father”. So, there are two “Son of the Father”, one of them shed His blood and died on the cross as the atonement of our sin, the other was released.
Why that event unfolded the way it did?
Let’s look at another event some five hundred years before that while the Israelites were still in the wilderness after they left Egypt on the way to the promised land, which is in the book of Leviticus – chapter 16, in which Yehovah God (יהוה אלהים) said to Moses with this instructions to tell his brother Aaron about sin atonement.
Leviticus 16:5~10
5 And he (Aaron) shall take from the congregation of the Israelites two young goats as a sin offering, and one ram as a burnt offering.
6 Aaron shall offer the bull as a sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house.
7 He shall take the two goats and present them before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.
8 Then Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats: one lot for the Lord and the other lot for the scapegoat.
9 And Aaron shall bring the goat on which the Lord’s lot fell, and offer it as a sin offering.
10 But the goat on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make atonement upon it, and to let it go as the scapegoat into the wilderness.
This is exactly what happened in the case of Yeshua (Jesus) and Barabbas, Yeshua (Jesus) is the sin offering and Barabbas is the scapegoat. Also, this is exactly one of those fulfillments that Yeshua (Jesus) said “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them” in Matthew 5:17.
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