And the crowd came up and[a] began to ask him to do as he customarily did[b] for them. So Pilate answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?” 10 (For he realized that the chief priests had handed him over because of envy.)

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 15:8 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“came up”) has been translated as a finite verb
  2. Mark 15:8 The imperfect tense has been translated as customary here (“customarily did”)