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# Connecting Statement:
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Pilate, hoping the crowd will choose Jesus, offers to release a prisoner, but the crowd asks for Barabbas instead.
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# Now
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This word is used here to mark a break in the main story line as the author shifts to telling background information about Pilate's tradition of releasing a prisoner at feasts and about Barabbas. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-background]])
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# There with the rebels in prison ... in the rebellion, was a man named Barabbas
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"At that time there was a man called Barabbas, who was in prison with some other men. They had committed murder when they rebelled against the Roman government"
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# to do for them as he had done in the past
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This refers to Pilate releasing a prisoner at feasts. This can be made clear. AT: "to release a prisoner to them as he had done in the past" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/pilate]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/prison]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/names/barabbas]] |