If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.
ATTRIBUTION:
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), French author, filmmaker. (Essay originally published 1918). Le Coq et l’Arlequin, Le Rappel à L’Ordre (1926), repr. In Collected Works, vol. 9 (1950).
Barabbas was the thief and insurrectionary leader reprieved at Christ’s crucifixion, following the custom at Passover. (Matthew 27).
