17. So when they were assembled, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you wish I release to you? Barabba, or יהושע who is called Messiah?”
18. For he knew that because of envy they had delivered Him up.
19. And as he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Have none at all to do with that righteous Man, for I have suffered much today in a dream because of Him.”
20. But the chief priests and elders persuaded the crowds that they should ask for Barabba and to destroy יהושע.