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Answer for the clue "One whom Pilate pardoned ", 8 letters:
barabbas

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
biblical masc. proper name, Greek Barabbas , from Aramaic barabba , "son of the father," or "son of the master." In Hebrew, it would be ben abh .

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Barabbas or Jesus Barabbas (a Hellenization of the Aramaic bar abba בר אבא, literally "son of the father" or "Jesus, son of the Father" respectively) is a figure mentioned in the accounts of the Passion of Christ , in which he is an insurrectionary whom ...

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Even Sadik the Mouffetish--Sadik, who had four hundred women slaves dressed in purple and fine linen--Sadik, whose kitchen alone cost him sixty thousand pounds a year, the price of whose cigarette ash-trays was equal to the salary of an English consul--even Sadik, foster-brother, panderer, the Barabbas of his master, was silent and watchful to-day.