And Pilate answered them, saying, Do ye wish that I would release to you the king of the Jews?
But there is a custom for you that I should release to you one man at the Passover. Do ye wish therefore I would release to you the king of the Jews?
And having cried aloud, the multitude began to ask as he was always doing for them.
For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him up because of envy.