An emotional fictional tale about Barabbas—the robber whom, at the urging of the crowd, Pontius Pilate pardoned.
The plot of these events is familiar to almost everyone: about two thousand years ago, during the celebration of Easter, according to local custom, the fifth procurator of Judea, Pontius Pilate, offered the people a choice—one of those sentenced to death would be released. Influenced by the elders and the Pharisees, those gathered demanded that Barabbas be freed, thereby delivering Jesus Christ to execution. But who was this man in reality? What had he been waiting for—a death sentence? And what happened to him after the Savior was crucified? In the novella “Barabbas,” Marie Corelli offers her own artistic interpretation of these questions.
Marie Corelli is one of the most widely read authors of Victorian times, and her books continue to resonate with readers even today. Although her best-known work is considered “The Sorrows of Satan,” it was the publication of “Barabbas” that brought the writer her first truly big success.