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It seems as if Jesus and Barabbas were actually two sides of the same person. The spiritual leader, who preaches new (mostly non-aggressive) beliefs and wants the Jewish people to achieve a kind of ''moral'' freedom, is opposed to the insurrectionnist, i.e. one who'd actually get involved in the ''physical'' liberation of the Jewish people. That ''physical'' "son of God" is what Jesus could have been in the eyes of the Jews, and he was often blamed (by the Jewish people ''and'' by his disciples) for not taking actual ''action'' against the Empire. Jesus's line aroused misunderstanding and frustation even among his most fervent followers (Peter, Judas), and made it easy for the High Priests to manipulate the crowd into rejecting their Messiah (since they weren't exactly happy with him in the first place). | It seems as if Jesus and Barabbas were actually two sides of the same person. The spiritual leader, who preaches new (mostly non-aggressive) beliefs and wants the Jewish people to achieve a kind of ''moral'' freedom, is opposed to the insurrectionnist, i.e. one who'd actually get involved in the ''physical'' liberation of the Jewish people. That ''physical'' "son of God" is what Jesus could have been in the eyes of the Jews, and he was often blamed (by the Jewish people ''and'' by his disciples) for not taking actual ''action'' against the Empire. Jesus's line aroused misunderstanding and frustation even among his most fervent followers (Peter, Judas), and made it easy for the High Priests to manipulate the crowd into rejecting their Messiah (since they weren't exactly happy with him in the first place). | ||
So the episode with Barabbas can just be a parable for the public's rejection of Jesus's pacifism. The story makes it look like the crowd actually made the Romans free one man (a rioter) and crucify another one (a preacher), but it can be seen as if there was a ''hypothetical'', ''rioting'' "Jesus son of | So the episode with Barabbas can just be a parable for the public's rejection of Jesus's pacifism. The story makes it look like the crowd actually made the Romans free one man (a rioter) and crucify another one (a preacher), but it can be seen as if there was a ''hypothetical'', ''rioting'' "Jesus son of God" they ''would'' have freed and followed, and the ''actual'', ''preaching'' "Jesus son of God" they had had enough of and chose to crucify... | ||
This episode about "state mercy" on the day of Passover sounds more like a choice offered ''by'' the crowd ''to'' Jesus : | This episode about "state mercy" on the day of Passover sounds more like a choice offered ''by'' the crowd ''to'' Jesus : | ||
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==Speculation== | ==Speculation== | ||
===Barabas as power without alienation=== | ===Barabas as power without alienation=== | ||