Mark 15:8

8 The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them.

Mark 15:8 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 15:8

And the multitude crying aloud
The Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions read, and when the "multitude", or "people went up", to the place called the pavement, where the judgment seat was; and so it is read in Beza's most ancient copy; but the former reading is to be preferred:

began to desire [him to do] as he had ever done to them:
that is, release a prisoner to them, as he had done at every passover, since he had been a governor over them.

Mark 15:8 In-Context

6 Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whom they asked of him.

7 There was one called Bar-Abba, bound with those who had made insurrection, men who in the insurrection had committed murder.

8 The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them.

9 Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you you want me to release to you the King of the Yehudim?"

10 For he perceived that for envy the chief Kohanim had delivered him up.