2 And Pilate questioned Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Are you the Melech HaYehudim? And, in reply, he says, You say so.
3 And the Rashei Hakohanim were accusing Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach [of] many things.
4 And Pilate again questioned him, saying, Do you not answer anything? Look how many things they accuse you [of].
5 But Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach no longer answered anything, so Pilate was astounded. [YESHAYAH 53:7]
6 Now [at] every Chag he was releasing to them one prisoner for whom they were making bakosha (request).
7 Now there was the one being called Bar-Abba, who had been imprisoned with his fellow insurrectionists and who, at the time of the Mered (Revolt, Uprising), had committed retzach (murder).
8 So the crowd came and began to ask Pilate to do for them just as in the past was his custom.