Matthew 27:21

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XIV

Now, He who is the Christ may have taken thesynagogue to wife and cohabited with her, but it may be that afterwards she found not favour in Hissight; and the reason of her not having found favour in His sight was, that there was found in her anunseemly thing; for what was more unseemly than the Circumstance that, when it was proposed to themto release one at the feast, they asked for the release of Barabbas the robber, and the condemnationof Jesus?[156]