In the second chapter, the title character meets a girl with a hare-lip and asks her if there is any news from Gilgal.  
In the second chapter, the title character meets a girl with a hare-lip and asks her if there is any news from Gilgal.  In order to verify the claims of a man he meets, he hides behind a tamarisk bush and when morning comes he sees the hare-lip girl again, who tells him to love others. On the outskirts of a village he meets a blind old man who claims that he has "merely been dead" and who won't relate anything about the realm of the dead because "it exists, but it isn't anything."  When the persecutions begin, the blind old man goes to the Sanhedrin to testify against the girl, who is promptly stoned to death.  In revenge, the title character knifes the man who cast the first stone and secretly buries the girl's body outside Jerusalem, though he is later executed with some Christians who started a fire in Rome.  Beginning with the crucifixion of Jesus, FTP, identify this novel whose title character is the man freed in Jesus' stead, a work by Par Lagerkvist.
In the second chapter, the title character meets a girl with a hare-lip and asks her if there is any news from Gilgal.  
Barabbas