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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
Death to Him! Release Barabbas to us, who had been thrown into prison as a rebel and murderer.
Western Saints
Bonaventure
Therefore he adds: Who for a certain sedition made in the city and for murder had been cast into prison, and thus he was seditious and a murderer, and moreover a robber, as is said in John 18: "Now Barabbas was a robber." From this the perversity of the Jews is apparent, because they preferred a seditious man to the Savior, a thief to the Benefactor, and preferred the life of a murderer to the Author of life; whence Acts 3: "You denied the Holy and Just One and asked that a murderer be granted to you; but you killed the Author of …
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