Matthew 27:15-18 Now the procurator was accustomed to release, at the festival, any one of the prisoners whom the multitude demanded.

Living_Oracles⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁵ Now the procurator was accustomed to release, at the festival, any one of the prisoners whom the multitude demanded. ¹⁶ And they had then a famous prisoners named Barabbas. ¹⁷ Therefore. when they were assembled, Pilate said to them, Whom shall I release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Messiah? ¹⁸ (For he perceived that through envy they had delivered him up;