Thinking about Barabbas | National Catholic Reporter

Thinking about Barabbas | National Catholic Reporter by Mary Ann McGivern.  MGB: Jesus son of Jesus is probably a literary fiction that everyone forgot about, giving him a reality in the literalist community (which includes too many bishops).  Jesus bar Jose was offered the deal of worshiping Satan and receiving worldly power in return.  Barabbas to the deal that Jesus did not.  He was a zealot, believing that violence is the answer to the world's problems, especially when they have to do with Israel (sound familiar?)  In the eyes of the world, Barabbas won - he lived to fight another in the Zealot Party (which Jesus' brother Simon was actually a member of).  Jesus lost - except that he didn't lose, he conquered death on the third day. The zealots kept busy and eventually made a futile last stand at Mosada, prefering suicide to martyrdom.  We know what happened to the Jesus movement.