John 18:39 “But it is your custom that I release to you one prisoner at the Passov…”

John 18:39

But it is your custom that I release to you one prisoner at the Passover. So then, do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?

World English Bible

But you have a custom that I should release someone to you at the Passover. Therefore, do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”

American Standard Version

But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?

Geneva Bible 1599

But you haue a custome, that I shoulde deliuer you one loose at the Passeouer: will yee then that I loose vnto you the King of ye Iewes?

Darby Translation

But ye have a custom that I release [some] one to you at the passover; will ye therefore that I release unto you the king of the Jews?

Young's Literal Translation

and ye have a custom that I shall release to you one in the passover; will ye, therefore, [that] I shall release to you the king of the Jews?'

Bible in Basic English

But every year you make a request to me to let a prisoner go free at the Passover. Is it your desire that I let the King of the Jews go free?

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Cross references

“ye have”

Matthew 27:15–18 Mark 15:6 Mark 15:8 Luke 23:17 Luke 23:20

Matthew 27:15–18 · BSB

Now it was the governor’s custom at the feast to release to the crowd a prisoner of their choosing.

Mark 15:6 · BSB

Now it was Pilate’s custom at the feast to release to the people a prisoner of their choosing.

Mark 15:8 · BSB

So the crowd went up and began asking Pilate to keep his custom.

Luke 23:20 · BSB

Wanting to release Jesus, Pilate addressed them again,

Also

Luke 23:16–23 Matthew 27:20–23

Luke 23:16–23 · BSB

Therefore I will punish Him and release Him.”

Matthew 27:20–23 · BSB

But the chief priests and elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus put to death.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

38“What is truth?” Pilate asked. And having said this, he went out again to the Jews and told them, “I find no basis for a charge against Him.

40“Not this man,” they shouted, “but Barabbas!” (Now Barabbas was an insurrectionist.)

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