So the people came crowding up, asking Pilate to grant them the usual favour.
»Now it was the Governor's custom at the Festival to release some one prisoner, whomsoever the populace desired;
Soon on His feet once more, He enters the district of Judaea and crosses the Jordan: again the people flock to Him, and ere long, as was usual with Him, He was teaching them once more.
and at this time a man named Barabbas was in prison among the insurgents–persons who in the insurrection had committed murder.
»Shall I release for you the King of the Jews?« answered Pilate.