Luke 23:17-19

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¹⁷ [Pilate usually let one person go free out of the prison at Passover time.]^[a]

¹⁸ But the crowd all shouted together, ‘Take this man away and kill him! We want Barabbas to go free.’

¹⁹ Barabbas had fought against the Roman rulers in Jerusalem. He had also killed somebody. That is why the rulers had put him in prison.