The crowd went to Pilate and asked him to release a prisoner following his usual custom.
Keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the Israelites will slaughter the animals after sunset and before it gets dark.
Now it was the custom of the governor to release to the crowd during the festival whichever prisoner they wanted.
Jesus left Capernaum and went to the region of Judea and Transjordan. Once again people flocked to see him, and he was teaching them like he always did.
One of the prisoners was a man called Barabbas who belonged to a group of rebels who had committed murder during an uprising.
“Do you want me to release to you the King of Jews?” he asked them,