You CAN look this up, you know.......... from Christian source.
"bar" in Hebrew means "son," "abba" means father. bar Abba means son of the father. Barabbas is a corruption of "son of the father."
"MRzoey0 ups, <1h, 1 reply
BS .. THE ROMANS said JESUS was a innocent man, and they offered up Barabos.. JEWS wanted Jesus dead.."
You couldn't even spell the latter day version of the name right.
btw, the Jesus version isn't, as Jesus - even if he existed - was no messiah. He didn't do a single messianic thing. He got arrested on his fist try. Sedition, remember? You might want to look that up too.
Unlike bar Kokhba, Son of the Light, who lead a revolt against the Romans in 70AD and established self rule in Jerusalem for a few years.
Jesus, whose parting words to his Apostles was that he'd return WITHIN their lifetimes, didn't, and he didn't do anything else either. Period.