Matthew 26:5

5But they said, “Not during the feast, alest there be an uproar among the people.”

Mark 15:6

Pilate Delivers Jesus to Be Crucified

6 bNow at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner for whom they asked.

Mark 15:8

8And the crowd came up and began to ask Pilate to do as he usually did for them.

Luke 23:16-17

16 cI will therefore punish and release him.”
Here, or after verse 19, some manuscripts add verse 17: Now he was obliged to release one man to them at the festival


John 18:38-39

38Pilate said to him, “What is truth?”

After he had said this, ehe went back outside to the Jews and told them, fI find no guilt in him.
39 gBut you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”

Acts 24:27

27When two years had elapsed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius hFestus. And idesiring to do the Jews a favor, jFelix left Paul in prison.

Acts 25:9

9But Festus, kwishing to do the Jews a favor, said to Paul, “Do you wish to go up to Jerusalem and there be tried on these charges before me?”
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