Barabbas and the Inner Release

Neville's Inner Vision

On the level of consciousness, the text presents a scene of outward choice that hides an inner release. Barabbas embodies the rebellious, self-willed segment of your mind—the thought-form that feels imprisoned by anger, fear, and violence of judgment. The crowd’s demand to release Barabbas while Jesus remains in custody is a parable for how the old self is allowed to go free by your attention while the higher truth stands, momentarily unobserved. In Neville’s terms, the true deliverance comes not from the external release but from the assumption that the I AM is the only reality and that the prison you call Barabbas is a mistaken identity. When you identify with the I AM, you liberate the belief in guilt and crime, and what remains is mercy and justice inseparable from your natural state. The promised salvation is the inner alignment: when you revise the scene—declare the old self released and the divine presence acknowledged—the sense of separation dissolves, and your life reflects harmony, release, and redemption as your ordinary state of awareness.