Legion near Judea at time of Jesus

[Renatus]

In the case of Barabbas, I think as many as 2 cohorts would have been sent.

We simply do not have the information to make this sort of judgment. As I have endeavoured to point out, the Gospels are inconsistent in relation to Barabbas. The most that we can say is that there was apparently some sort of disturbance in which one or more persons were killed and in which Barabbas may or may not have been involved but we have no idea whether this was widespread or merely a local issue nor how many were concerned in it. It certainly does not seem to have been so serious as to attract the attention of Josephus. You would be better concentrating on Pilate's action against the incipient rising of the Samaritans but, even then, we do not have any numbers.