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