Best Barabbas Poems

Hey there, whatcha lookin' at?
Yeh, you in the shadows, pretending like you're reading something.
That's right, YOU!  You DO recognize me eh?  Barabbas!
The meanest...

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Jesus was an innocent man;
The son of God, while Barabbas
Was a Jewish dyed-to-the-wool
Enemy to the Roman Empire

“Crucify him!” “Crucify him!”
“Release Barabbas!” “Release Barabbas!”
The masses chanted...

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Knowledge and wisdom are not found
in the chaotic crowd's cacophony of voices
caused by fear and frustration
They gather like swarms of locusts
on emotional wings of hysteria
Their...

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When the mind's disease is hate
it flows through the veins unchecked
I'm just a voice of reason in the midst of darkness
striking a match 
a light...

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At the end of Mercy Street
lies a forgotten wharf.
A single row boat is 
moss covered.
The battered vessel is 
moored and unwanted
like leprosy -
conducive to an...

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A cradle filled with hay 
Our newborn Jesus lay
Born of the Virgin Mary
Sin of man to carry

From the cradle, Mary knew
What Jesus must go through
A...

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YOU CAN GIVE YOUR BEST

Today’s stench in today’s society
Today’s filth in today’s leaders
Today’s corruption in today’s nation
Are the ill-results of yesterday’s ill-attention
	
Fathers, Mothers, Guardians and...

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Some watching my ease
Of execution of the self
The latent anxiety unteased
Writes me off in simplicity.
Some denuding me of honor's wealth
Wait in turmoil 
For a scab...

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Oh! What a weary world of woe
To see a pious man, laid low
A pitiless look, from Godless eyes
Barabbas luck, means His demise

His destiny, to be...

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Were you there when they crucified my Lord?
Were you there when they gave Him up for 30 pieces silver reward?
Oh what horror, oh what shame;
They...

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Judas Iscariot would later feel great pity.
The sad state Jesus was in he was able to see.
The thirty pieces of silver received as a...

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STRONG IS YOUR HEART
Deadly is your effrontery
That stands side by side with ground;
Like lion roaring upon its prey
So you wear the toga of a beast
And...

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I see you on the Calvary
 
I've seen you carry the cross
     Wearing a crown of thorns
I've seen you wearing my...

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Pilate:
Pilate, scared, washed his 
hands. 
A crackdown by Caesar 
loomed. 
Pharisees threatened. 

The Sentence:
Pharisees threatened. 
Jesus doomed; scripture 
fulfilled. 
Crowd shrieked: CRUCIFY!

Barrabas:
Pilate asked which one?
Give...

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The Just for the Unjust

BIBLE MEDITATION:
"For Christ also died for sins once for all, the Just for the unjust, so that He might bring us...

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