Matthew 27:26 · World English Bible
Matthew 27:26 Meaning Then He Released to Them Barabbas
Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified.
What does Matthew 27:26 mean?
Barabbas opens as bar-abba, son of the father, and to release him while binding the Christ is to choose the lower mind over the higher, the crowd's man of flesh set free while the inner light is handed to suffering. Faced with both, a person keeps the familiar reasoning self and gives up the one thing that could rise.
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Barabbas opens as bar-abba, son of the father, and to release him while binding the Christ is to choose the lower mind over the higher, the crowd's man of flesh set free while the inner light is handed to suffering. Faced with both, a person keeps the familiar reasoning self and gives up the one thing that could rise.
The scourging and the crucifixion are not a death out in history but an allegory of the rise of Christ consciousness. The 5 senses are shut down and the outer self is stilled so the inner one can lift. What looks like defeat is the very shutting of the doors of sense by which the Christ within begins to rise.
Barabbas: bar-abba, son of the father, the lower reasoning mind of the crowd chosen over the higher Crucifixion: the allegory of the rising Christ consciousness, the 5 senses shut down and the outer self stilled
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Live Matthew 27:26 today
- Give yourself twenty minutes today with the screens off, the phone in another room, and nothing to achieve in that time. The restlessness that shows up first is the noise leaving, not a sign you are doing it wrong.
- Sit with someone for a stretch without entertainment running, no show, no phone between you. Let the first awkward quiet pass instead of filling it.
- When you are stressed and reaching for the easy comfort, the feed, the snack, the fourth coffee, let the reach go unfinished once. Stay in the plain, unsoothed version of the moment and see what is actually under it.
What do I keep turning on so I never have to hear what is quiet in me?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 48
The way goes by taking away, not adding on. Something has to be put down before anything can rise in its place.
Patanjali · Yoga Sutras
The senses are turned inward and the clamor drops away, and only then does the inner thing become clear. Stillness is not a loss, it is the condition for seeing.
Sufism · Rumi
The reed has to be cut from the reed bed and hollowed out before it can make any music. What felt like being broken was the making of the instrument.
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