Mark 15:6-15

WPNT(i) 6 Now at the feast he would release to them one prisoner, whomever they would request. 7 Well there was one called Barabbas, who had been bound with his fellow insurrectionists, who in the insurrection had committed murder. 8 Then the crowd began to call out and request that he do just as he always did for them. 9 So Pilate answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release to you the king of the Jews?” 10 (He knew that the chief priests had handed Him over because of envy.) 11 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd, so that he should release Barabbas to them instead. 12 Pilate answered and said to them again, “What then do you want me to do to him you call ‘king of the Jews’?” 13 Again they shouted, “Crucify him!” 14 But Pilate said to them, “But what evil did he do?” They just yelled all the louder, “Crucify him!” 15 So Pilate, wanting to gratify the crowd, released Barabbas to them, and Jesus, after a flogging, he handed over to be crucified.