Mark 15:8
6 Now it was Pilate’s custom at the feast to release to the people a prisoner of their choosing.
7 And a man named Barabbas was imprisoned with the rebels who had committed murder during the insurrection.
So the crowd went up and began asking Pilate to keep his custom.
9 “Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?” Pilate asked.
10 For he knew it was out of envy that the chief priests had handed Jesus over.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- So the crowd went up and began asking Pilate to keep his custom.
- KJV
- And the multitude crying aloud began to desire him to do as he had ever done unto them.
- WEB
- The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them.
- ASV
- And the multitude went up and began to ask him [to do] as he was wont to do unto them.
- DARBY
- And the crowd crying out began to beg [that he would do] to them as he had always done.
- BLB
- And the crowd, having gone up, began to request [that which] he usually did for them.
- ÅB
- og folket kom opp og begynte å be Pilatus om det som han alltid pleide å gjøre.
- OTB
- Folkemengden kom og ba Pilatus om å gjøre som han pleide for dem.
- B1930
- og folket kom op og begynte å be Pilatus om det som han alltid pleide å gjøre.