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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To elaborate on 22:07, there was some sort of law where the Jewish people could save someone (like get a pardon) and Pilate was trying to offer that so he could have a way out and spare him.  The people in the crowd picked Barabbas (some bad dude) instead.  I recall Pilate was surprised at this.

OP, if you go read the story rather than rely on DCUM (including me, who is going off memory) it should answer your question[/quote]
"The story" is deeply antisemitic. I think/hope OP is looking for actual historical information and not a regurgitation of "the Jews killed Jesus" that can be found in "the story."[/quote]
I don't think it is.  I think antisemites have used the story as an excuse to be antisemitic[/quote]
The story itself paints Jews as a mob that calls for Jesus' death; I think that's antisemitic in its own right. From the US Holocaust Museum: "For centuries the Church taught that Jews were responsible for Jesus' death, not recognizing, as most historians do today, that Jesus was executed by the Roman government because officials viewed him as a political threat to their rule." [url]https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/antisemitism-in-history-from-the-early-church-to-1400[/url]
Antisemites don't need much of an excuse to be terrible, but the story provides them a good one and that's a problem.[/quote]

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