Pilate answered them, saying, “Do y’all want me to release the King of the Jews for y’all?”
But y’all have a custom that I should release someone to y’all at the Passover. So, do y’all want me to release the King of the Jews for y’all?”
The crowd came up and began to ask him to do as he always did for them.
For he knew that the chief priests had handed him over because of envy.