Pilatus tidak menyangka Yesus bersalah. Dia akan membebaskan satu tahanan setiap tahun. Dia menawarkan untuk melepaskan Yesus tetapi orang banyak berteriak untuk Barabas.
15 Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release for the crowd any one prisoner whom they wanted.16 And they had then a notorious prisoner called Barabbas.17 So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?”
