2 Pilate asked Jesus, “Are you the king of the Jews?”Jesus answered, “Those are your words.”
3 The leading priests accused Jesus of many things.
4 So Pilate asked Jesus another question, “You can see that they are accusing you of many things. Aren’t you going to answer?”
5 But Jesus still said nothing, so Pilate was very surprised.
6 Every year at the time of the Passover the governor would free one prisoner whom the people chose.
7 At that time, there was a man named Barabbas in prison who was a rebel and had committed murder during a riot.
8 The crowd came to Pilate and began to ask him to free a prisoner as he always did.