Mark 15:9

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

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

Cross References

John 18:39

But since you [Jews] have a custom that I should release to you one [prisoner] during the Passover Festival, do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”

Mark 15:8

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].

Mark 15:10

For he perceived that the leading priests had turned Jesus over to him out of envy.