(Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.)
And there was one named Barabbas, which lay bound with them that had made insurrection with him, who had committed murder in the insurrection.
And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas:
And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.
Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spoke again to them.
And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.
Are not you that Egyptian, which before these days made an uproar, and led out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?
But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted to you;