6. Every year at the Passover time the governor would free one person from prison. He would free any person the people wanted him to free.
7. At that time, there was a man named Barabbas in prison. He was a rebel and had committed murder during a riot.
8. The crowd came to Pilate and asked him to free a prisoner as he always did.
9. Pilate asked them, “Do you want me to free the king of the Jews?”