Skeptics Say "No" to Barabbas and Pilate: The Mark Series pt 63 (15:1-15)

Skeptics claim that Barabbas was invented by the Gospels for symbolic purposes. Skeptics say that Pilate would never have given in to the requests of the Jewish leaders to crucify Jesus. Skeptics say that Pilate would not have released prisoners, like Barabbas or Jesus, for the Passover feast. I'll be answering all that today!
But I have two other really important things to cover as well. One of them is the sad fact that the trial of Jesus before Pilate has been historically used to justify persecution of Jewish communities by those who name the name of Christ; the Jewish Messiah, ironically enough! The second issue is simply the point of the passage as it relates to the theology we are learning from the trial of Jesus.
Whether you are joining me for the live stream or watching afterward I hope and pray that this will be a blessing to you and increase your confidence in the truth of Scripture and the love of God for all people.
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[@mayamohammed4850]

Hello pastor Mike an ex Muslim here saved by Jesus and your KZbin channel have been a blessing to me in my walk with Christ Thank you

[@ProfYaffle]

Praise God. Praying for Muslims to be freed from the deceit

[@RobotCrafter1]

Amen

[@EofBrokenSilence]

Hallelujah brother!!

[@mayamohammed4850]

@@EofBrokenSilence hi my name is Maya I am a girl a sister in christ:)

[@duncescotus2342]

Prayers for you and your people, beloved of the Father.

[@benjaminkitaura498]

The best thing about this teaching in 2021 is that everyone should be well versed in crowds and mobs of people are used in politics and how dangerous it can become in a few seconds.

[@SusieQ3]

Such a good observation! It's amazing how humanity does not change without the saving redemption of Jesus.

[@Captain-Awesome]

Nooooo Kidding!! When Jesus’s name is hate speech we have to be getting close to the end

[@megofiachra3247]

Watching this in December 2021, and that was EXACTLY my thought, too!

[@jonathansmith5850]

Hence so much social media is about a mob mentality

[@jaimeduncan6167]

I am not sure what you are talking about. I will said stuff like the Nazi movement, the lynching of black people, the Salem nonsense, the Cultural revolution in China, the violent antisemitism trigger by the reformation etc are good examples. Right now I don't see massive killings going on politically on the West. At this moment, even the European Neo-Nazis have a small death toll.

[@oterosocram25]

Love when Jesus said “you wouldn’t have any power if it wasn’t given from above” powerful

[@addictedtojesus922]

I know right? Bless His Name. He truly is AWESOME. 😎

[@markmooney5662]

Anti-semitism is anti-Christian....Amen to that statement. Grace and peace Gilly wife of Mark

[@proudhon100]

What do you mean by anti-semitism? Is opposing the slaughter of civilians in Gaza anti-semitic?

[@krakoosh1]

@@proudhon100there’s only 1 definition for that word. Slaughter of civilians in Gaza? Gazans voted for their government who invaded a foreign, sovereign territory and kidnapped, tortured, raped and murdered its citizens. Gazans are taught from birth and all through school to hate and desire to murder all Jews, Americans and Brits. They have been told to turn over Hamas. They don’t. They don’t want to. Israel tries to limit as much civilian death as it can. It also treats Gazans in their own hospitals. But this is a war. Civilians die. Do you think no civilians died when Gaza bombs Israel? Or when the Germans bombed England? Or when Berlin was bombed? How about when Japan attacked Hawaii and all the other islands in the Pacific Ocean?

[@Imahuckleberry]

Do you know who said he's not the Christ? The one who said Matthew 24:4-5

[@stephenstreit1178]

I saw him take a sip of coffee at the beginning and I instantly had to like the video

[@EofBrokenSilence]

It actually made me get a cup of my own before watching lol

[@stephenstreit1178]

@@EofBrokenSilence lol

[@addictedtojesus922]

I want coffee now. ☕

[@cynthiaharris5736]

I’m a total theology geek, thank you Mike. May God grant to you the gifts of knowledge, wisdom, peace and joy to continue your ministry for as long as God leads you too.

[@Imahuckleberry]

If that's true, look at the interlinerary for 1 John 2:22, OUK/NOT is missing in our bibles. The antichrist spirit is in those that claim Jesus is NOT/OUK the Christ, they deny the true ABBA and son Jesus Barabba, and replace him with John 8:44 YHWH and the Matthew 24:4-5 DECEPTION called Jesus the Christ. These are the facts, and reason why christians cannot answer Jesus's oh so very dimple question. " If David calls him Lord, how is he his son"? Christians can't give the answer because they would realize they've been deceived. Jesus Barabba son of ABBA ( John 5:43) is NOT from the line of David, he wasn't even born on this planet. But Jesus said the pharisees/ Christians cannot even hear him.

[@patriciamccool5243]

@Mike Winger…I was listening to another discernment ministry the other day. They mentioned you and described you as the “gentleman” of the genre!! They are right. The fruit of kindness is so evident in your ministry. Thank you.

[@zutholady7845]

This was soo good!! Totally blessed my midnight "why am I still awake" session. God bless you Mike

[@ThePlantoparadise]

Thank you for doing this video Mike! My college Humanities professor heavily pushed this "Pilate wouldn't have released prisoners to the Jews" argument in the classroom, as part of her teaching that the gospels were unreliable.

[@rightousliving]

They are not reliable, that’s why we need the Holy Spirit. This doesn’t mean they are not useful, yet it’s the Holy Spirit who leads us into all the truth, not the bible. Scripture itself says that the letter kills, the Spirit makes alive (and this does not just relate to the law of Moses as some pastors teach, for then it would have said so as it clearly refers to the law as the law). Scripture is full of error because it’s written by men who are not infallible. Only the Holy Spirit is infallible, therefore, unless you’re filled with the Holy Spirit, you won’t have proper guidance. The bible teaches that all men are liars and that who trusts in flesh comes under a curse. This was written to point us towards God and away from men. If we rely on the bible alone we rely on men and not God and therefore would come under a curse. The bible is inspired but not dictated.

[@tayh.6235]

@@rightousliving how do you know then that that verse is not one of the errors?

[@rightousliving]

@@tayh.6235 that’s not the point, none of the writers claimed infallibility, however they pointed towards God and the importance of knowing God personally. If the gospel is not real then you can’t be filled with the Holy Spirit and everything is just fake. However if you can receive the Holy Spirit then He will guide you into all the truth and then you can determine truly right from wrong. So, are you filled with the Holy Spirit? If not, are you willing to receive him now?

[@ThePlantoparadise]

​@@rightousliving If scripture is full of error, then how can you trust *any* of the things it says about the Holy Spirit? Where does your idea of the Holy Spirit come from, if not from what the Bible says? How do you know who God really is without trusting what men long ago filled by the Holy Spirit have written about him under His inspiration? If what you're saying about the Bible's reliability is true, then no one (including you) should bother being a Christian, nor should they trust any supposed Holy Spirit. Fortunately this isn't the case. The Bible is literally the most historically reliable compilation of books from ancient history, and we have many good reasons to trust it, from its descriptions of historical and political details that are corroborated by archaeology and textual criticism, to the prophecies its' human authors made thousands of years ago (such as the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD and the return of israel in 1948 AD) that have since proved true. Men are fallible and are liars, yes, but that doesn't negate the power of God to transmit the truth through them and to preserve it through time. The idea that none of the Bible's authors claimed infallibility in what God had them write is demonstrably untrue. King Solomon claimed it in Proverbs 30:5, the Apostle Paul claimed it in 2nd Timothy 3:16 and 2nd Peter 1:21, Jesus claimed it about many of the OT authors as he quoted from them, and the Apostle John claimed it in John 21:24. The Bible's authors and Jesus himself also both affirmed that the Bible is divinely inspired and the truth it contains will endure the test of time (Psalm 119:160, Hebrews 4:12, 2nd Timothy 3:15-17, 2nd Peter 1:20-21, Matthew 24:35, Matthew 5:18, John 10:34-35). If the Bible wasn't trustworthy like this or has lost many plain and precious parts to it (as the Mormons like to say), that makes Jesus a liar and no one should truly trust a single word written on the pages of scripture, including anything it says about the Holy Spirit. Tasso, I don't know who your spiritual leaders are, but if they're telling you the gospels aren't reliable, then they're false teachers, and I would plead with you to run from them and run to the only true Christ of the Bible, because they're in direct opposition of what Jesus and his Apostles said all throughout the New Testament. I'm not saying all of this to be mean, I'm telling you this because you've been lied to about God's word and you need to hear the truth.

[@rightousliving]

@@ThePlantoparadise Scripture can be trusted to be inspired by God, yet scripture is not dictated by Him. It is not like the Quran in Islamic tradition, which is claimed to be dictated to Mohammed. Clearly you don’t believe that otherwise you would follow Allah and not God. Therefore a claim alone is not enough to make something true. Scripture also clearly says, that all men are liars. If you believe the bible being God’s Word in every aspect, than you are in a conundrum of explaining how all men are liars yet the writers of scripture aren’t. Yes, scripture can be trusted, but only as scripture that is useful for instruction into the faith. You trust it like a good wise man who you know personally as a good man who has a proven record that his words are trustworthy. Yet even the wisest men now and in all history have said things that they believed to be true but weren’t. You still use your own judgment before you take on their wisdom, and in the same way we need to do this with scripture. God is not a book, he is a Spirit and the only way to know the truth is to get to know God personally by being filled with the Holy Spirit. Otherwise, why else does scripture tell us that it’s the Holy Spirit who will guide us into all the truth instead of scripture? How else would you know which of the many versions of scripture is the correct one since we don’t have any original writing of any of the writers? Every biblical scholars knows that there is no such version that could be counted as the ultimate correct one.

[@lionoffireministries]

God bless you Mike and everyone watching 😊✝️🙏

[@spartankongcountry6799]

Thank you. God bless you too, friend 🙏

[@shannonjenkins9251]

Matt, I’m glad we move in the same circles.. ! I see you on the same channels I watch and I don’t watch very many, but yours is one of them too!!

[@marksandsmith6778]

Not me. I can't stand the bigot.

[@marksandsmith6778]

@RetroMan it's not DISAGREEMENT but a fight for LGBTQ survival against bullies with a book of excuses.

[@addictedtojesus922]

God bless you.❤️

[@sarahhostkoetter960]

You led me to christ. Every video I watch just gets me closer. Thanks.

[@moriartythethird5709]

24:21 I never thought about it like that. I always saw it as, he didn't speak because this has to happen, but seeing it also as he doesn't offer a defense because we don't have one is really powerful to me.

[@Parra_Homestead]

Thank you for this Pastor, Mike. I needed to be reminded of His Grace and Mercy. Some days (like yesterday) I feel just so overwhelmed with my weakness and failures and sin. I am a child of God. Thank you, Lord Jesus.

[@davidgatward4395]

👏

[@yeetus_reetus_deeleetus]

historians in the future: "The corona never existed because the zoomer generation had zoom classes, and that's way too symbolic."

[@YvetteBronx]

Pastor Mike, may I offer up something that I learned in my studies of Natural Law - all crime is a form of theft. Murder is the theft of one’s life that does not belong to you. The crime of rape is the theft of someone’s sexual consent and of their body which does not belong to you. The crime of trespass is theft of one’s safety in dwelling, which does not belong to you. The crime of assault is the taking (without just cause) another’s physical well-being, which does not belong to you. I can go on and on, but I think you get the point that every wrongdoing comes down to an act of theft.

[@CG2589]

Kind of funny note, I just finished the 20 questions from Friday on my Watch Later playlist and the video ended with Pastor Mike about to take a sip of water and this video begins with him finishing a sip. It was bizarrely timed right. If it wasn't for the shirt it would be like he just went right into the next video.

[@megofiachra3247]

He's a quick changer. lol

[@mandihodges3154]

This was awesome! The “cat cam” was the only thing that could have made this any better 🐈‍⬛

[@duncescotus2342]

Skeptics say "No" to Shakespeare too, but that hardly diminishes his literary genius.

[@DamonNomad82]

My great grandparents were missionaries to Tibet in the early to mid 20th century. The example that you use around 21:30 reminds me of an aspect of Tibetan village life from that time period (just before the start of World War 2). Tibetans were members of a type of Buddhism that strictly prohibited the killing of animals, even swatting flies was considered murder. (My great grandparents were once put on trial for "murdering" flies, but that's another story!) However, they still ate meat. The loophole they used was to hire a Chinese family (usually an Islamic family) to move to the village or neighborhood to be the butchers for the community.

[@hilarybeaumont8823]

I'm one of those binge-ers of your content you speak of at the end of this teaching and yes, so grateful for your teaching and helping me to see the Bible with fresh eyes and get into engaging with it more deeply. Thank you!

[@dpcrn]

This has been one of my favorite of your videos. Some of the material is not particularly new to me, but it has been a great reminder and you were very eloquent.

[@ishg9819]

Thanks so much for this content. I never thought about Barabbas and Jesus in that way. That he was the pardoned man and that Christ took his cross, and so we are Barabbas. It brought me to tears. God’s grace IS that good.

[@addictedtojesus922]

I just love this channel so much.✝️❤️

[@markdonnaabbott3977]

I kinda look at it like Pilate is a representation of us gentiles and the Jews are representative of God's chosen as ALL of us being partakers of Jesus's crucifixion. Because we've all sinned. Thank you for another great verse by verse study. The thing I love the most is you'll give us historical accounts and cultural explanations which help me so much and saves me time. AND the best part you stick to scripture and in context!! God bless your ministry.

[@hannahelizabeth3920]

God bless you Mike! Your work is glorifying Jesus! God is working through you, He is using you as a vessel to guide the lost towards the One who saves.

[@MrFrog-rc3zx]

Mike just drops banger after banger

[@samuelwilliams4383]

Thank you so much for your faithfulness to this ministry. I appreciate the careful analysis and practical understanding that you teach. My wife and I both enjoy your content, and it motivates us to dive deeper into the word ourselves, both individually and together.

[@lauraluna9465]

Thank you for ALL you do for us! I deeply appreciate the work you put in, to get this content out. GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR MINISTRY AND YOUR STAFF!!!

[@spartankongcountry6799]

Very well thought out. This whole series is a blessing.

[@believein1]

Keep up the great work, Brother Mark. God continue to be with you and give you wisdom.

[@tagaldersibes]

Yeah! I DO feel more equipped! Thanks as always Mike.

[@jeffreperezhernandez9006]

Thank you brother Mike for your content! May the Lord bless you and your channel. Continue to serve the Lord, live for His glory, and continue to be conformed into the image of Christ. God bless brother!

[@jeffreperezhernandez9006]

@@JamesRichardWiley romans 8:29, sanctified daily by the Holy Spirit to live holy and pleasing lives that please God and are set apart for God’s glory. Hope this clears the confusion.

[@MS-gp2xg]

Just beautiful, Mike! Talk about the grace and forgiveness of God. Lord, help us to internalize the message of the Gospel and let it be revealed through our words and actions.

[@jermss_]

amazing message pastor Mike! how beautiful is the grace of our God dying for the sins of man. amen

[@merissacobb4644]

Amen mike thank you for your studying of the gospel and may we all learn more of the truth of Christ

[@Version135]

'it is as you say' always came off to me as something i wasn't understanding. The interpretation you shared rings true to me for whatever thats worth.

[@jamesmeyers5370]

Simply beautiful study, Mike. Thank you for your diligence!

[@bettymofokeng8342]

Wow what a great message and the closer speak in individuals heart to look at every person with the live we are loved with by Christ

[@TwoMessianicJews]

Thank you so much for showing how an anti-semitic interpretation of this passage is a bad interpretation! Wonderful presentation.

[@CMGigas1803]

Yet the anti- jewish interpretation has been the dominant view by the vast majority of Christians. It is well documented and easy to see.

[@rightousliving]

@@CMGigas1803 it’s a hard one. I believe in Jesus, I’m filled with the Holy Spirit and have witnessed many miracles that confirmed to me that God is real, yet I am very challenged by the scriptures showing a strong anti-Jewish flavour. However, through much study and prayer I came to the conclusion that Jesus was real but not everything written down was truth or truth that was clothed in Roman friendly terminology to keep them preserved so they wouldn’t get condemned as anti-Roman. Studying that period of time made me realise that to survive in such a climate where persecution was very real one had to play the game of the persecutors. There are actually scientific studies being done on the scriptures that show techniques used to encrypt the message in a similar way as was done by others Jews like the Essenes.

[@CMGigas1803]

@@rightousliving Do you view the gospel writers and their text as mostly pro-Roman( gentile) or pro-jewish?

[@TwoMessianicJews]

@@rightousliving You should subscribe to our channel :) We are dedicated to showing the Jewishness of the New Testament. We don't think it is anti-semitic or anti-Jewish

[@TwoMessianicJews]

@@CMGigas1803 And the dominant view throughout history is the wrong interpretation, which is also easy to see. Besides, since the Holocaust, Christians themselves have been doing much of the work of correcting prior Christian interpretation.

[@JoaquimCarlosjoshua]

Lovely and blessed work, Mike. Much love.

[@jenndavin]

Thanks, Mike. Well done. Love the drama surrounding the Passion.

[@janettegilbert76]

Brilliant as usual Mike, I love your teaching and love your cats, I have 3 😻😻😻

[@BHIPHOP91]

So good! Thank you Mike!!❤️🙌🙏

[@carolinerich7213]

Excellent teaching as always. When you were doing the closing prayer I thought about those I don’t feel can be preached to, radical LGBTQ etc and I was totally convicted and softened. God bless.

[@riatsila144]

I'm sad. With this video, I'm caught up with the Mark series! Now gonna have to wait like everyone else who watched from the beginning! But, more importantly, this his been an amazing study, and very enlightening in what I feel like has been treated like something of a "lesser gospel"

[@senaidapoulsen6105]

Beautifull teaching Thank you Mike and Gods peace keep you in our Lord Jesus Christ Amen

[@nicos645]

Pastor Mike, thank you for this. A few years ago I was studying with different versions of the Bible and came across the "Jesus Barabbas" thing. It was a very exciting discovery for me, so I texted my Pastor at the time about it. Unfortunately, he was discouraging, and said there was no significance in the Scripture to that, and moreover, that it was inaccurate that the Barabbas guy would have also been named Jesus (Or Yeshua). I really appreciated your shared study of this topic in light of that experience. May the Lord continue to bless and keep you and make His face to shine on you!

[@erichgerstmann4516]

I really enjoyed it. God bless!

[@Eben_Haezer]

Thank You Brother , God Bless You

[@cassiefriedman8685]

Thank you pastor 🙏

[@billlantz8751]

I really dig it! Thanks so much!

[@billlantz8751]

I bless the Lord that I found this.

[@RAEEGHAITH]

I just Love this!!!

[@eandjroch]

The tomb of Pontius Pilate has already been uncovered, and they have found a personal journal from him. The tomb has even been rediscovered. There is a list of items which were documented from excavation of his tomb, and he was buried along side his son. He professed to become a Christain following the death of Jesus in a personal journal which was uncovered. The Bible is history.

[@eandjroch]

@@riolpelol You were correct to question this, because I remembered this incorrectly. It was the tomb of Caiaphas, the high priest who handed Jesus over to Pontius Pilate. I will have to see if i can hunt down that journal that was found. It was someone who was involved in the crucifixion that ended up converting to Christianity following the supernatural events proceeding the death of Jesus. For some reason I thought it was Pilate, but now I am questioning it. Thanks for bring this back up to my attention.

[@wintersking4290]

There were tons of examples of people using nicknames, since name variety was so low. There were like 25 Roman male names in total, so the overuse of names required nicknames just to differentiate.

[@zechariahfire5697]

Very thoughtful mesagge, thanks !

[@KaoXoni]

22:30 "if it was wrong ton start a fire on Sabbath, then it would also bei wrong to ask somebody else to do it." Exactly. According to Exodus 20, to observe the Sabbath, "you shall not do any work, and neither shall your son, daughter, servant, cattle, nor the foreigner who lives among you." No excuse whatsoever for making a goi do what you consider a Sabbath taboo. Double standards are an abomination to the Lord..

[@HOSPlTALLER]

BTW Mike, love your work on the Pitch Meeting YT channel.

[@madisonmyers7213]

What’s interesting if you believe the Acts of Pilate, (which I believe is a semi-historically accurate document based upon a real report sent from Pilate to Tiberius about the goings-on in his province) is that Pilate speaks about the “fiends of Hades” being present in the crowd on the day Christ was tried and executed. It’s very apparent the supernatural world was more clamoring for Christ’s death than anybody else. Also it states the Judean priests bribed people to show up for the trial and riot. In addition to that it says Pilate was severely undermanned (only like 200 troops) and he had actually written to the Syrian governor and been denied for aid during the Passover, which is why he was more likely to have Jesus executed against his best intentions

[@haljordan777]

Regarding Barabbas and the Roman practice of giving nicknames to insurrectionists, there's a famous insurrectionist from the 1st century BC that we know as Spartacus, but that wasn't his real name. I've read that historians don't know his real name. The Romans called him Spartacus after an earlier Thracian leader.

[@jokerace0]

Grateful for ya Mike

[@benhowell5369]

Thank you Mike

[@alaskaforme9429]

Thank you

[@johnstanhope2436]

Mike, I really wish you would move to Wilmington, NC. I respect your approach to nearly all things biblical and that which relates to Christianity and society at large, and I'd join your church out here in a hot minute!. :o)

[@AndyfromPBG1]

You're in a more important position than you think. You're truly seeking God and there aren't a ton of people doing that. You have to find a church and make it better. You and Mike are in the same group- go build the church, we need everybody and you're qualified.

[@kellypatton1220]

Thank you for sticking up for the Jews. I've never seen such antisemitic people as there are now. I pray for the Jews and Muslims to get saved.

[@mashudumashao1600]

Well executed 💯🔥

[@goesthadistance]

Thank you.

[@mitch6676ify]

Mike..good work as usual. You came tantalizingly close when you suggested a possible connection between the day of atonement and the passover- Jesus indeed bridged the two festivals. An amazing example of the meaning of His fulfilling "every jot and tittle". But it happened AFTER the judgment by Pilate. It happened AT Golgotha, At the hour of His death, and made possible by God's hand to open up the earth below the cross and thus make a path for His water and blood (1st john 5) to penetrate the earth down to the long hidden chamber which held the ark of the covenant, dripping onto it (as required in Lev 16:15 ) and thus "anointing" it as foretold in Dan 9:24. REMARKABLE.

[@josephdarkhelmet9494]

Interesting scholars claim Pilate wouldn't bend to the pressure but then again, Rome wasn't a totalitarian society. Roman government negotiated with people to maintain peace I'm sure.

[@Greyz174]

Would Pilate bend to pressure to release a prisoner that committed murder in an insurrection? Like Mike said, in explaining why the "King of the Jews" accusation was supposedly fabriacted, it was because Pilate's bottom line was order and peace. How would setting the precedent that if a crowd is mad enough he'll release a violent rebel supposed to maintain the Roman goal of order and peace?

[@danlester5763]

thank you

[@addictedtojesus922]

I love my Jesus. He's my God. I'm so thankful for all He's done and who He is. Thank You, my Heavenly Father. Thank You, Holy Spirit. My Comfort. You are the Comforter who helps me in all my struggles.

[@kentavianlemons88]

god bless you mike

[@DrDoomBloom]

We have to pray for these skeptics and the people who continue to say you can somehow separate the Bible and it’s accuracy and reliability from God Himself.

[@grrsss8335]

you actually do make a good case for Pilate to have occasionally released prisoners.

[@angietyndall7337]

One for Israel and Seeking Allah Finding Jesus are proof that the Gospel is for more than a select few as some would think in modern times.

[@VickyRBenson]

The fast-growing segment of Christianity today is in Iran.

[@JiovanniCintron]

Super good video. Any tips for reading verses the way you do? All the information is interesting and fun to listen to.

[@kymmoore853]

It was very common in history for people to be called ‘Son of...’ or ‘of such and such place’ or by their trade because most people did not have surnames, especially at that time. It’s where names like ‘Robinson’ and ‘Jackson’ etc. Came from or why people have surnames such as ‘Baker’ and ‘Walker’ and, biblically speaking, there are references to people like ‘Simon of Cyrene’. Even Paul was ‘Saul of Tarsus’. I think we tend to forget what the past was like and need to stop thinking only in modern terms.

[@toddkeeran3479]

Blessed is he who does not stand in the counsel of men but delights in the word of the Lord. Ask the Father if his teachings were spoken through Jesus?

[@amybee40]

The symbolism is that the real "Son of the Father" is crucified, while the man set free is called "son of the father" -- as we are also called once WE are set free by the sacrifice of Christ.

[@JamesRichardWiley]

And the whole account is written by anonymous followers who added their own interpretation to a routine execution of a troublemaker.

[@brandonoliver7624]

@@JamesRichardWiley what evidence do u have for that?

[@lectro5418]

So typical of human nature that we accept the counterfeit and reject the real, reject truth and except falsehoods. Satan always has his counterfeit to distact the masses. Sheep hear and know the voice of the shepherd. Jesus warned against these hired shepherds.

[@hoganmitchell5515]

He is faithfull and just, I know and u know he made him who new know sin to be on our behalf. For I pray we seek and find and I pray when we find we know.

[@Finda1982]

Hello Pastor Winger, Thank you for your teaching. I really enjoy and learn so much when I listen to your teaching. I have a question please. Do you have a video teaching about the three Abrahamic Religions expression their roots, common belief, similarities and difference? I am a second generation Christian from a Muslim background. I know and believe that Christ is God the Son, He came down and died for my sins; and through him, I am save. Both my parents are pastors. My Mother came from a Muslim background; her parents are both Muslims. I want to learn about the religion but from a Christian pastor/ theologian. I want to learn about it to where I am able to help convert friends and love ones who call themselves Muslims but don't really know the meaning or belief of it to become followers of Christ. I also want to learn the religion of Judaism because a very close friend of mine is a Jewish in faith and ethnicity. Thank you

[@DEADTHENALIVE]

There's a lot of people with the same name in the bible like "twins" Great video

[@HOSPlTALLER]

The guy who drove the Scapegoat away had to wash before coming back into the camp... what did Pilate do with his hands after agreeing to release Barabbas?

[@Captain-Awesome]

How Cool would it be to have a time machine to go back to this day. During this scene to lock eye with Jesus and say Thank You! Yep I know I am a 10 year old but still.

[@markmooney5662]

That is a very cool idea ...I always thought if I could travel back in time I would go to that time and that place...just to see His face and see His miracles.....you are pretty deep for a 10 year old boy Even cooler that we will see HIm in heaven on His throne GOD bless you Danny Mitchell Gilly wife of Mark

[@Captain-Awesome]

@Pepper 10 years old mentally, I guess us older guys do think of time travel also.

[@Captain-Awesome]

@@markmooney5662 God Bless you to Mark! The ten year old thing was more of a maturity gauge :). See you there brother!!

[@Captain-Awesome]

@Pepper Something that’s close to seeing what it would be like to have walked with Jesus is the show called “The Chosen”. You can see it on KZbin or better in the App. It doesn’t cost anything and is the very best show I have seen in the life and Ministry of Jesus. It’s not your Grandpa’s Jesus show.

[@Captain-Awesome]

@Pepper Agreed

[@larryuknow]

If you're not going to eat those gummies, I'll be gladly take them off your hands.

[@minimouse7890]

Barabbas is a reference to Isaac, who was the beloved son of Abraham who was released, on Mt Moriah, when the ram took his place. Jesus is the ram who was sacrificed on behalf of us all who are indeed nowsons of the father.

[@KristiLEvans1]

🤯

[@Window4503]

So basically we’re Barabbas too

[@minimouse7890]

@@Window4503 exactly. Sons of the Father, made so by the sacrifice of the Ram, caught in the thicket. Have you ever connected the crown of thorns to the thicket?

[@jasonlochary9656]

I like how Pilate asked Jesus questions and was looking for answers so maybe to let Jesus go if his answers were satisfactory. Jesus remained silent. Knowing this is why HE came. To die for us on the cross.

[@rightousliving]

I find it troubling when some teach Jesus planned to be crucified and that everything around it was just a show to make prophecies fit. That would make Jesus a deceiver. No, brother, Jesus never planned to be crucified, he never wanted Judas to betray him (then Judas wouldn’t have betrayed him but done Gods will). Jesus had a very different plan but at Gethsemane, the oil press, he was sweating blood and wrestling with the situation while praying for God’s guidance.

[@vincent9413]

@@rightousliving God has not been fully forthcoming, but he is not even a bit dishonest. What’s more, Jesus, being fully God, knew the crucifixion would come. Being fully human, he dreaded the burden of that pain and punishment finally coming to pass. Nothing uncharacteristic occurred.

[@rightousliving]

@@vincent9413I know where you coming from, it’s often taught like this but I don’t think it’s true. Jesus didn’t know everything and it was after the betrayal that he was sweating blood pleading with God to take this cup away from him. Why would he pray this if he already knew Gods plan and why was he in this turmoil only after he knew about the betrayal? Surely Jesus was hoping for another outcome. But you’re free to believe otherwise.

[@vincent9413]

@@rightousliving Well, It’s like I said, he was also fully human. He was perfect, God, but he wasn’t a robot. He was a human being with temptations and feelings and fears. Let’s say you knew exactly when you were going to be tortured and die to save humanity from itself. You would live your life with that weighing on you, it’s manageable and far away, but you wouldn’t change the outcome, knowing it’s the most important thing that will ever happen. Then, the time comes, and you finally have to confront those fears. That’s why Jesus cried and prayed. He was scared.

[@rightousliving]

@@vincent9413 you wouldn’t offend anyone in your church with that belief as it is the accepted version, but I believe for many good reasons that this belief is wrong. The one I gave is already very compelling, because if Jesus knew, than everything up till then was just a show, a pretence, stringing the disciples along on a way he never intended in the first place. No, Jesus wanted to take the throne in the way it was expected of the messiah, yet God knew it wasn’t going to happen and therefore there was another messianic prophecy which Jesus realised after the betrayal, that this was now the way it had to be. The one about the suffering servant.

[@scottfaerber1664]

@MikeWinger what do you think about the possibility of the insurrectionists being a father and son who were captured and imprisoned? I think of ultra political families even these days. I can easily see Barabas being a young man who got caught up in the passion of his father's political activities. TOTALLY A GUESS, but wouldn't be hard to believe. Blessings!

[@Mr211jp]

Although I don't agree with a few things Judah Smith has said, his Jesus Loves Barabbas video brings me to tears every time. If you haven't see it look it up. It is really good

[@danbrown586]

Haven't yet watched the video, but my immediate reaction to "Pilate wouldn't have..." would be this: The Gospels are first-century documents, written by first-century authors (all but Luke were eyewitnesses) to a first-century audience, describing first-century events. I'm sure those authors, and their audiences, would be more familiar with Roman proconsuls generally, and Pilate specifically, than 21st-century skeptics. Three of them (all but Luke) state that it was Pilate's custom to do this--again, they're written by eyewitnesses, and well within the lifetimes of plenty of others who could have refuted this.

[@jaero2144]

@Mike Winger I just got baptized yesterday praise GOD!!! I’m not new to faith but it was more of something I did out of obedience, I have been saved but kept putting off being baptized for no good reasons, anyway I have been addicted to Suboxone for over 10 years to get off a pain pill addiction, I have never relapsed and have no desire to ever take a pain pill again and I am so ready to get off of Suboxone also, sorry for the long intro but my question was how should I feel about being baptized while still being addicted to an opiate type drug like Suboxone? I have tapered down tremendously and I really have the desire to quit and I am a strong believer in Christ and didn’t want to wait to be baptized anymore, but I still feel guilty for still being addicted to drugs...mainly physically and not so much mentally that is meaning I have decided to quit this drug a while ago mentally but I can’t seem to get over the withdrawals even @ such a low dose, anyway how should I feel about all of this? Thanks

[@barbarahawkins7864]

I’m praying for you, brother 🙏🏻 💖

[@JamesRichardWiley]

The original purpose of Baptism is to remove the curse of Original Sin put on humanity by Yahweh for the disobedience to Yahweh by Adam and Eve in the children's Bible story called Genesis. If Baptism brings something beneficial to you then why not get baptized? I just don't believe it does anything.

[@levifox2818]

Baptism is identifying with Christ and committing oneself to him publicly. In the New Testament, most converts were baptized very quickly. Before, I would speculate, they got control over all things that gave them trouble. The important thing is the direction of holiness. In your case, I’m not sure that it is in anyway sinful to work your way off of a drug. It is ideal not to be addicted at all. But working your way off in a prudent manner is not a reason to put off baptism.

[@Cmbtvtrn05]

@@JamesRichardWiley children's bible story??

[@jaero2144]

@@barbarahawkins7864 thank you!!!

[@tell-me-a-story-]

These people say “Pilot would never” As if they knew him personally 😂

[@debblouin]

The morning meeting was a legal hearing within the Sanhedrin. Jesus was arrested and taken into custody the night before. He was questioned after the Sanhedrin met and had already come to its decision. The religious legal structure of Judaea was retained and acknowledged insofar as it could be observed within and by Roman law, while also being “separate”.

[@danielmalinen6337]

Short summary: The fall of Judea to the responsibility of the Roman Prefect, the leader of the cohort, was the fault of Archelaeus, one of Herod's sons. According to Josephus, Archelaus caused further unrest in Judea due to his inexperience, so the Ethnarch was called out and banished to Gaul in 5 CE. This change left Judea temporarily under the Propraetorial Imperial Legate of Syria, Quirinius, in 6 CE until the first Prefect, Coponius, could be installed in Judea. Pontius Pilate was in his turn Fifth Prefect (not procurator) and succeeded Valerius Gratus in 26 CE. Upon Pilate's arrival, he moved the administrative headquarters from Caesarea to Jerusalem, but the transfer of the cohort standards (with the picture and monogram of the emperor) to Herod's palace in Jerusalem caused a riot among the Jews and a rift with Herod's sons. Pilate was prefect until the year 36 CE when he slaughtered a group of Samaritan pilgrims on Mount Gerizim because he mistook them for a rebel army. As a result of his mistake, Pilate was summoned to Rome and Caiaphas was removed from the office of high priest. However, Pilate's reign was not always brutal and during Pilate's time (based on archaeology), they built an aqueduct in Jerusalem, they repaired a watchtower at the Siloam gate, and they paved the stepped ceremonial street.

[@jbfrd9152]

Can you review and share your thoughts on episode 5 season 2 of the Chosen? Love the series but something about this episode sat very uneasy for me, maybe that uneasiness is misplaced, I'm not too sure. Would love to get your opinion on it!

[@Lee-Darin]

In John's Gospel Pilate says to the crowd "You have a Custom that I should release one prisoner to you at the Passover." So it's very possible that the custom was a Jewish custom not a Roman one.

[@hiddenrambo328]

The planted crowd makes sense and that is what the early morning council was probably about.

[@hey_its_me_932]

Camera zooms in. "This is a theory I'm not sure." LOL

[@stevenpoe640]

CS Lewis tells the story, I believe in Mere Christianity, about how he had read scholarly critiques of his own works where the critics tried to explain where Lewis got his inspirations or whatever, and he said that those critics were wrong about him 100% of the time. Lewis marveled that people in the then-20th century thought they had figured out the secret meanings and sources for the 2000-year-old documents of the New Testament, but his own contemporary critics couldn't get it right, even when analyzing the work of a living modern author. It's sadly hilarious that someone would claim "Pilate wouldn't do that" or "No one would be named Barabbas" like they know more about it than people writing at the time of the events.

[@timrodriguez16]

Hey Mike when you gonna make a 2 hour video of moxie?, asking for a friend..

[@ElficGuy]

Moxie?

[@timrodriguez16]

@@ElficGuy 🐈‍⬛

[@ElficGuy]

@@timrodriguez16 🤣🤣🤣 ohhhh yeah!! I agree then!

[@timrodriguez16]

@@ElficGuy lol it would be awesome if he put a little button up shirt with glasses on the cat like he was about to teach too!!