2 Pilate asked Jesus, “Are you the king of the Jews?” Jesus answered, “Yes, that is right.”
3 The leading priests accused Jesus of many things.
4 So Pilate asked Jesus another question. He said, “You can see that these people are accusing you of many things. Why don’t you answer?”
5 But Jesus still did not answer, and this really surprised Pilate.
6 Every year at the Passover time the governor would free one prisoner—whichever one the people wanted.
7 There was a man in prison at that time named Barabbas. He and the rebels with him had been put in prison for committing murder during a riot.
8 The people came to Pilate and asked him to free a prisoner as he always did.