And the one named Barabbas[a] was imprisoned with the rebels who had committed murder in the rebellion. And the crowd came up and[b] began to ask him to do as he customarily did[c] for them. So Pilate answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?”

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 15:7 “Barabbas” means “son of the father” in Aramaic
  2. Mark 15:8 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“came up”) has been translated as a finite verb
  3. Mark 15:8 The imperfect tense has been translated as customary here (“customarily did”)