Patristic Quote of the Day

Here was their choice: Let an acknowledged criminal go free, or free one whose guilt was disputed. If they should choose to let the offender go free, would it not be even more fitting to allow the innocent to go free? For surely Jesus did not seem to them morally worse than acknowledged murderers. But instead they choose a robber. This was not just any robber, but one who was infamous for wickedness in many murders.—St. John Chrysostom, Homily 86 on St. Matthew