When the crowd gathered and began to ask Pilate for the usual favor,
Then, on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, the whole community of Israel will kill the animals.
At every Passover Festival the Roman governor was in the habit of setting free any one prisoner the crowd asked for.
Then Jesus left that place, went to the province of Judea, and crossed the Jordan River. Crowds came flocking to him again, and he taught them, as he always did.
At that time a man named Barabbas was in prison with the rebels who had committed murder in the riot.
he asked them, “Do you want me to set free for you the king of the Jews?”