Mark 15:6

6 At that feast Pilate was wont to delivre at their pleasure a presoner: whomsoever they wolde desyre.

Mark 15:6 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 15:6

Now at that feast
The feast of the passover, which was at that instant; see ( John 18:39 ) . The Syriac, Arabic, Persic, and Ethiopic versions read, "at every feast"; as if the following custom was used at every feast in the year, at the feasts of pentecost and tabernacles, as well as at the passover; whereas it was only at the latter:

he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired;
of this custom (See Gill on Matthew 27:15).

Mark 15:6 In-Context

4 Wherfore Pilate axed him agayne sayinge: Answerest thou nothinge? Beholde how many thinges they lay vnto thy charge.

5 Iesus yet answered never aworde so that Pilate merveled.

6 At that feast Pilate was wont to delivre at their pleasure a presoner: whomsoever they wolde desyre.

7 And ther was one named Barrabas which laye bounde with the that made insurreccion and in the insurreccion comitted murther.

8 And ye people called vnto him and began to desyre accordinge as he had ever done vnto them.