Mark 15:6-7 Devotionals, Articles & Bible Study

⁶Now it was Pilate’s custom at the feast to release to the people a prisoner of their choosing.

⁷And a man named Barabbas was imprisoned with the rebels who had committed murder during the insurrection.

— Mark 15:6-7

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