Markos 15:8

8 So the crowd came and began to ask Pilate to do for them just as in the past was his custom.

Markos 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.

Markos 15:8 In-Context

6 Now [at] every Chag he was releasing to them one prisoner for whom they were making bakosha (request).

7 Now there was the one being called Bar-Abba, who had been imprisoned with his fellow insurrectionists and who, at the time of the Mered (Revolt, Uprising), had committed retzach (murder).

8 So the crowd came and began to ask Pilate to do for them just as in the past was his custom.

9 But Pilate answered them, saying, Do you wish [that] I should release to you the Melech HaYehudim?

10 For Pilate knew that because of kinah (envy) the Rashei Hakohanim had handed him over to him.