6. During Passover, Pilate always freed one prisoner chosen by the people.
7. And at that time there was a prisoner named Barabbas. He and some others had been arrested for murder during a riot.
8. The crowd now came and asked Pilate to set a prisoner free, just as he usually did.
9. Pilate asked them, “Do you want me to free the king of the Jews?”
10. Pilate knew that the chief priests had brought Jesus to him because they were jealous.