⁴ So Pilate asked him again, ‘What is your answer? You should say something! Listen! They are saying that you have done many bad things.’

⁵ But Jesus still did not reply to what the men were saying against him. Pilate was very surprised about that.

⁶ During the Passover festival each year, Pilate let one person go free out of the prison. The people had to ask him for the person that they wanted.