He was held in prison for insurrection and murder.

Rebellion is (uncountable) armed resistance to an established government or ruler while insurrection is an organized opposition to an authority; a mutiny; a rebellion. 

Barabbas represents all mankind in both of those. Who of us hasn’t been rebellious against God?

Secondly, who of us hasn’t hated someone, even God? We can’t love someone if we have 1% hate in our heart, that’s not love! —But, you say, we’re only human. Yes, but, if you have asked Jesus to come into your life, the Spirit of God is changing me and you, from glory (ours) to His glory!! (2 Cor. 3:18)  We are changed from someone who is bound by the Law of God to a new person who is being changed by a greater law of Love. Jesus applies that law in the two greatest commandments to us. We become changed more and more to a new glory as we manifest His love daily toward Him and to others!

*Exodus 33:18-19 Moses

*John 17:24 Jesus

When I was a teenager, I used to sit on my bed and gaze out of the window of my room. I lived in a small town of SC that was plenty big enough for me. I was allowed to ride my bike from one side of town to the other. Once a three-pack of dogs chased the back tire of my bike and one plunged upward far enough to give my outer thigh a hard bite! I had to go to the town clinic to stop the bleeding and clean it up. I was okay but I never liked dogs since!

While staring out the window, I could see the trees and the night sky with the moon and the stars, but there were light poles and light wires obstructing the beautiful night sky. I wrote a type of poem there on my bed, which I have saved and I’m hoping I’ll find it again soon. It’s in a stack of my “saved things.”

I remembered starting it off by saying, “Man in the moon, who has made you? ‘Way up high…”

I’ve always loved the night sky, so quiet and still to me, but the shimmering and sparkling stars as unknown galaxies were spinning and swirling in dark outer space.

If I stared long enough at them, I could almost see depth in the sky, as some seemed to come nearer to me as others receded into the background. God made the stars. That’s all I needed to know. I could be me while I looked at the stars and the beautiful Carolina moon. You don’t have to pretend when you’re communing with the heavens above. I knew God lived away up above the stars at that He saw me standing below. His eyes watched everything all at the same time, which amazed me! But He was watching me as I was watching His heavens. Time would pass and I had to step down from the sparkling darkness where reality of the world of clocks, and schedules exist. God made the world in six days and rested on the seventh. How beautiful to know He wants us to rest one day a week, for we need our inner strength to be recharged by a rest He had provided in making the days of the week.

And what comes after the seventh day? The “eighth” day in which He starts it all over again! God gives us a refreshing start! It is a new week! All cares and worries had been put to rest the day before and now we have a new opportunity to begin anew! To sort, fix, rearrange, and finish anything that lacked the week before!! What a thoughtful, wonderful, omniscient God is He!!