8. The crowd came up and asked Pilate to do for them what he usually did.
9. "Do you want me to let the king of the Jews go free?" asked Pilate.
10. He knew that the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him because they were jealous.
11. But the chief priests stirred up the crowd. So the crowd asked Pilate to let Barabbas go free instead.
12. "Then what should I do with the one you call the king of the Jews?" Pilate asked them.
13. "Crucify him!" the crowd shouted.
14. "Why? What wrong has he done?" asked Pilate. But they shouted even louder, "Crucify him!"