Except they had no such authority, and that and other notions (ie the Roman ritual of releasing prisoners on the eve of execution to appease unruly subjects nearing one of their holidays because submitting to the will of those you wish to subjugate - for killing a Centurian, no less! - must have been how the Romans paxxed their empire) was written in later by the very Romans who later wrote down those tomes and saw that demonizing Jesus's own people was preferred over demonizing themselves when hijacking those people's religion. If he took that approach, Saul/Paul's "If you can't beat them, make them follow you" would have ended before it got a foot set at the starting line.
It gets better, the two Jesuses who were sons of the Father, both arrested, tried, convicted, sentenced, and about to be executed at the same time for the same crime of sedition against the Roman Empire buuuuuuut one of gets released by his judge and governor? Coincidence? Or an addition to a story rumored to may have originally ended with the miracle of divine intervention in the form of Jesus getting spared. Now I can't find any written passages to support the possibility that BOTH seditious Jesuses were simply one and the same, but it does answer the question of WHY there were two Jesuses who were sons of the Father, both arrested, tried, convicted, sentenced, and about to be executed at the same time for the same crime of sedition in that story.
Even if it that wasn't the case, why did Y'ehsua bar Abba later get his name changed to "Barabbas" while the other Y'eshua got called "Jesus Christ"?
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