All four Gospels make reference to Barabbas, the man who got more votes than Jesus did on that fateful Good Friday so long ago.  In his book PERSONALITIES OF THE PASSION, Leslie Weatherhead says: “Matthew and Mark tell us that the priests incited the multitude to choose Barabbas as the one who should be released by the act of clemency with which the government marked the day of Jewish festival.  It seems a strange choice.” (New York and Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1953, p.  87)

I.  NOT TO ME IT DOESN’T.  It seems to me that, given the same circumstances that confronted the crowds back there in Jerusalem at that Passover, we would make the same choice they did, and vote for Barabbas.  That may sound like a shocking thing to say, but let’s think about it for awhile.  It was logical that Bara…