Pilate asked the people, “Do you want me to free the king of the Jews?”
Pilate knew that the leading priests had given Jesus to him because they were jealous of Jesus.
The people came to Pilate and asked him to free a prisoner like he always did.
But it is one of your customs for me to free one prisoner to you at the time of the Passover. {\cf2\super [239]} Do you want me to free this ‘king of the Jews’?”