Mark 15:9

New King James Version

But Pilate answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”

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“But you have a custom that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Do you therefore want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”

Then the multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do just as he had always done for them.

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