Matthew 27:15
15 During the feast the governor was accustomed to release one prisoner to the crowd, ▼▼sn The custom of Pilate to release one prisoner is unknown outside the gospels in Jewish writings, but it was a Roman custom at the time and thus probably used in Palestine as well (cf. Matt 27:15; John 18:39).
whomever they wanted.
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