6Now it was the custom at the Feast to release a prisoner whom the people requested.


In Context

3 The chief priests accused him of many things.

4 So again Pilate asked him, "Aren't you going to answer? See how many things they are accusing you of."

5 But Jesus still made no reply, and Pilate was amazed.

6 Now it was the custom at the Feast to release a prisoner whom the people requested.

7 A man called Barabbas was in prison with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the uprising.

8 The crowd came up and asked Pilate to do for them what he usually did.

Mark 15:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:6Now at [that] feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

15:6Now on the festival day he was wont to release unto them one of the prisoners, whomsoever they demanded.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

15:6Now at the feast he used to release unto them one prisoner, whom they asked of him.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:6But at the feast he released to them one prisoner, whomsoever they begged of him.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

15:6Now at the feast he used to release unto them one prisoner, whom they asked of him.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:6Now at that feast he released to them one prisoner, whom they desired.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:6Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whom they asked of him.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

15:6And at every feast he was releasing to them one prisoner, whomsoever they were asking;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:6Now at that feast he released to them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired.