Pilate answered them, saying, *Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?*
For he perceived that for envy the chief Kohanim had delivered him up.
The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them.
But you have a custom, that I should release someone to you at the Pesach. Therefore do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?*