4. So Pilate asked him again, "Aren't you going to answer? See how many things they charge you with."
5. But Jesus still did not reply. Pilate was amazed.
6. It was the usual practice at the Passover Feast to let one prisoner go free. The people could choose the one they wanted.
7. A man named Barabbas was in prison. He was there with some other people who had fought against the country's rulers. They had committed murder while they were fighting against the rulers.
8. The crowd came up and asked Pilate to do for them what he usually did.