Everyone in today's prevailing world culture is faced many times a day with just the same situation as Pilate. They must make up their minds about one thing or another; they must make decisions in one direction or another. And not a single one of those decisions can be outside the principle "Barabbas or Christ". Each one must, in any given situation, set either the Barabbas-temperament or the Christ-temperament free. Here we see how they try to compromise. They know perfectly well that they ought to set the Christ-temperament free, but this release could possibly come to affect their position and reputation, indeed even endanger their economic position or their living. And so, like Pilate, one becomes frightened and sets the Barabbas-temperament free and imprisons and executes the Christ mentality in oneself.