Luke 23:16-18

Expanded Bible

¹⁶ So, after I ·punish him [have him flogged], I will let him go free.” |¹⁷ Every year at the Passover Feast, Pilate had to release one prisoner to the people.|^[a]

¹⁸ But ·the people [^Lthey] shouted together, “Take this man away [^Cfor execution]! ·Let Barabbas go free [^LRelease Barabbas to/for us]!”