Mark 15:9

New Century Version

So Pilate asked them, “Do you want me to free the king of the Jews?”

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But it is your custom that I free one prisoner to you at Passover time. Do you want me to free the ‘king of the Jews’?”

The crowd came to Pilate and began to ask him to free a prisoner as he always did.

Pilate knew that the leading priests had turned Jesus in to him because they were jealous.