Insurrection
Mark gives one sentence to a man named Barabbas: he “lay bound with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection.” That is all the verse says, a rising against authority and a death in it. Yet he stands in Mark 15 as the prisoner the crowd is offered in place of Jesus. Readers find different things in that exchange, some a picture of one person freed while another is condemned, others simply a hard moment of human choice. Mark 15:6-15 tells the whole scene.
6 verses
2 Samuel
And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar: she was a woman of a fair countenance.
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king's dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom's place.
And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would God I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!
1 Kings
Three years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
Mark
And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection.