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 said nothing. Pilate was very surprised at this.
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?”