Mark 15:8
The crowd [then] went to Pilate and asked him to do what he was accustomed to doing for them [i.e., release a prisoner of their choosing during the Passover Festival].
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And the multitude crying aloud began to desire him to do as he had ever done unto them.
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Matthew 27:15
Now at the [Passover] Festival, the governor was accustomed to releasing whatever prisoner the crowd wanted.