But they said, Not during the Feast, that there not be an uproar among the people.

Now at the feast he was accustomed to releasing one prisoner to them, whomever they asked.

And the multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do just as he had always done for them.

I will therefore chastise Him and release Him

(for it was necessary for him to release one to them at the feast).

Pilate said to Him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews, and said to them, I find no fault in Him at all.

But you have a custom that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Do you therefore want me to release to you the King of the Jews?

But after two years Porcius Festus succeeded Felix; and Felix, wanting to do the Jews a favor, left Paul bound.

But Festus, wanting to do the Jews a favor, answered Paul and said, Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and there be judged before me concerning these things?