# General Information:

Verse 19 tells us background information about who Barabbas is. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-background]])

# they cried out all together

"All the people in the crowd shouted"

# Away with this man

"Take this man away!" They are asking for Jesus to be killed. AT: "Take this man away and execute him!" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])

# release to us

"us" refers to the crowd only, and not to Pilate and his soldiers. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-exclusive]])

# Barabbas was a man ... for murder

This is background information that Luke gives about who Barabbas was. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-background]])

# who had been put into prison

This can be stated in active form. AT: "whom the Romans had put in prison" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])

# for

"because of his involvement in" or "because of his crime of"

# a certain rebellion in the city

"trying to persuade the people of the city to rebel against the Roman government"

# translationWords

* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/barabbas]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/prison]]
* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/rebel]]