Either Barabbas or Jesus must die; either the one who stands for violent revolution, which Jesus has opposed from the beginning, or the one who has offered and urged the way of peace. Jesus ends up dying the death appropriate for the violent rebel. He predicted that he would be 'reckoned with the lawless' (22.37), and it has happened all too soon (279).
(Something I never thought of before.)
Wright, Tom. Luke for Everyone. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 2001. Print.
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