"Pilate said: 'Ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews? Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas.' So is it today. Barabbas is made a town counselor, a bishop, a dean, and a provost. You cannot expect the world to be any different from what it was in Christ's day. We are serving in an inn where the devil is the keeper, the world is his wife, the lusts of the world are the household, and all of them put together are against the gospel. It is a shame that the world prefers murder, adultery, faithlessness, trickery, guile, lying, and deception to the truth. They would rather bathe the world in blood than have the truth." -Martin Luther,
Luther's Meditations on the Gospels
