Mark 15:8

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

9 Pylate answered them and sayd: Will ye that I lowse vnto you the kynge of the Iewes?

10 For he knewe that the hye Prestes had delyvered him of envy.