The crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do for them as was his custom.
You are to keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembly of the community of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.
At the festival the governor’s custom was to release to the crowd a prisoner they wanted.
He set out from there and went to the region of Judea and across the Jordan. Then crowds converged on Him again and, as He usually did, He began teaching them once more.
There was one named Barabbas, who was in prison with rebels who had committed murder during the rebellion.
So Pilate answered them, “Do you want me to release the King of the Jews for you? ”