Mark 15:9

Modern King James Version

But Pilate answered them, saying, Do you desire that I release to you the King of the Jews?

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But you have a custom that I should release one to you at the Passover. Then do you desire that I release to you the king of the Jews?

And the crowd, crying aloud, began to beg him to do as he had always done to them.

For he knew that the chief priests had delivered Him because of envy.