But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
He then was unmanly and weak; but the chief priests wicked and criminal. For since he had found out a device, namely, the law of the feast requiring him to release a condemned person, what do they contrive in opposition to that? They persuaded the multitude, it is said, that they should ask Barabbas.
