In Luke 23, Jesus, the Son of Man, who was 100% God and 100% human offered Himself at the Cross for each and every one of us. He did it all just hoping we would choose to repent and humbly surrender to His offer as Lord and Savior of our lives. Pilate and Herod found no reason for Jesus to be crucified. They found Him innocent. The crowd won and they ultimately gave Him up to be crucified in a crushing death, for each of us. Barabbas means "son of the Father". We are Barabbas. Barabbas was set free because Jesus was crucified. Because of the sacrifice of Jesus, we are sons and daughters of the Father, if we surrender to His gift of salvation. Jesus won't force Himself on anyone. It's up to us to choose to repent and look to Jesus every single day. It's up to us to give Jesus every last "Yes" and worship Him with all our guts and every last breath.
