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And a late Happy Good Friday to you.

The Barrabas narrative can also be seen as film noir. The crowd who gathered to yell for Barabbas were his local buddies and Jerusalem low lifes. Jesus of Nazareth, the rural out of towner, had disciples who were too cowed by the south Los Angeles crowd of that time to show up and cheer for Jesus. I think Philip Marlowe obtained this guilt ridden admission later from Peter, right?

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