21 Bible Verses about People Releasing Others

But remember me when it will be well with you, and please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.

By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck."

May God Almighty give you mercy before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved."

The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks." Jacob said, "I won't let you go, unless you bless me."

"Isn't this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

The captive exile shall speedily be freed; and he shall not die [and go down] into the pit, neither shall his bread fail.

Pilate therefore said to him, "Aren't you speaking to me? Don't you know that I have power to release you, and have power to crucify you?"

Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release to the multitude one prisoner, whom they desired.

Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whom they asked of him.

But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

Then Pilate spoke to them again, wanting to release Jesus,

When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ?"

But the governor answered them, "Which of the two do you want me to release to you?" They said, "Barabbas!"

Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

I will therefore chastise him and release him."

He said to them the third time, "Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him."

At this, Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you release this man, you aren't Caesar's friend! Everyone who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar!"

When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

Agrippa said to Festus, "This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar."

who, when they had examined me, desired to set me free, because there was no cause of death in me.

Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.