In the gospel telling of Jesus' journey to the cross, one small character catches our attention for an instant and then disappears from the rest of the biblical account. We read about him in Matthew 27:15-26: 15 Now it was the governor’s custom at the festival to release a prisoner chosen by the crowd. 16 At that time they …
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Matthew Erickson 