But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release Barabbas instead.
Hear this, you priests! Pay attention, you Israelites! Listen closely, O king! For judgment is about to overtake you! For you were like a trap to Mizpah, like a net spread out to catch Tabor.
But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus killed.
(For he knew that the chief priests had handed him over because of envy.)
So Pilate spoke to them again, “Then what do you want me to do with the one you call king of the Jews?”
Then they shouted back, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” (Now Barabbas was a revolutionary.)
But you rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a man who was a murderer be released to you.