Mark 15:8

8 So the people came crowding up, asking Pilate to grant them the usual favour.

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 Festival it was customary for Pilate to release to the Jews any one prisoner whom they might beg off from punishment;

7 and at this time a man named Barabbas was in prison among the insurgents--persons who in the insurrection had committed murder.

8 So the people came crowding up, asking Pilate to grant them the usual favour.

9 "Shall I release for you the King of the Jews?" answered Pilate.

10 For he could see that it was out of sheer spite that the High Priests had handed Him over.