Mark 15:9-11

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⁹ “Do you want me,” answered Pilate, “to release for you ‘the king of the Jews’?”

¹⁰ He said this because he knew that the chief priests had handed him over out of envy. ¹¹ The chief priests stirred up the crowd to ask for Barabbas instead to be released to them. So Pilate once again asked them,