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Welcome to Sissy Larson Live. I'm Sissy Larson, and always honored to get to spend this time with you.

In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk,

the deep in your understanding of God's Word, and that heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your life. Well, here we are in Holy Week. And before I introduce my guest today, who's one of

your favorites? You've already maybe guessed who it is. I want to read a passage from the Bible,

Matthew 27. I'm going to start verse 11. Now, Jesus was standing before Pilate, the Roman governor.

Are you the king of the Jews?

The governor asked him.

Jesus replied, you've said it.

But when the leading priests and the elders made their accusations against him,

Jesus remained silent.

Don't you hear all these charges they're bringing against you, Pilot demanded?

But Jesus made no response to any of the charges, much to the governor's surprise.

Now, it was the governor's custom each year during Passover celebration to release one prisoner

to the crowd, anyone they wanted. This year, there was a notorious prisoner, a man named Barabbas.

As the crowds gathered before Pilots' house that morning, he asked them, which one do you want me

to release?

To Barabbas or Jesus, who was called the Messiah? He knew very well that the religious leaders had arrested Jesus out of envy. Think about that. Barabbas was a murderer. The religious leaders

were jealous of Jesus. Who do you want me to release? Just then his pilot was sitting on the judgment seat.

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