Markos 15:6-8

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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.