So Pilate asked them, “Do you want me to release the king of the Jews for you?”
(For he knew that the chief priests had handed him over because of envy.)
Then the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to release a prisoner for them, as was his custom.
But it is your custom that I release one prisoner for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?”