Mark 15:8

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

The crowd [then] went to Pilate and asked him to do what he was accustomed to doing for them [i.e., release a prisoner of their choosing during the Passover Festival].

Cross References

Matthew 27:15

Now at the [Passover] Festival, the governor was accustomed to releasing whatever prisoner the crowd wanted.

Mark 10:1

And Jesus left there and went to the region of Judea and east of the Jordan River. Again crowds gathered around Him and He continued teaching them, as was His custom.

Mark 15:7

One prisoner, named Barabbas, was kept chained up in prison along with men who had committed murder during a rebellion.

Mark 15:9

Pilate answered them; “Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews [i.e., Jesus]?”