'Release' in the Bible

At the festival the governor’s custom was to release to the crowd a prisoner they wanted.

So when they had gathered together, Pilate said to them, “Who is it you want me to release for you—Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Messiah?”

The governor asked them, “Which of the two do you want me to release for you?”“Barabbas!” they answered.

At the festival it was Pilate’s custom to release for the people a prisoner they requested.

So Pilate answered them, “Do you want me to release the King of the Jews for you?”

But the chief priests stirred up the crowd so that he would release Barabbas to them instead.

Therefore, I will have Him whipped and then release Him.”

[For according to the festival he had to release someone to them.]

Then they all cried out together, “Take this man away! Release Barabbas to us!”

Pilate, wanting to release Jesus, addressed them again,

A third time he said to them, “Why? What has this man done wrong? I have found in Him no grounds for the death penalty. Therefore, I will have Him whipped and then release Him.”

You have a custom that I release one prisoner to you at the Passover. So, do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”

So Pilate said to Him, “You’re not talking to me? Don’t You know that I have the authority to release You and the authority to crucify You?”

From that moment Pilate made every effort to release Him. But the Jews shouted, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Anyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar!”

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release Him.

When daylight came, the chief magistrates sent the police to say, “Release those men!”

After they examined me, they wanted to release me, since I had not committed a capital offense.

Women received their dead—they were raised to life again. Some men were tortured, not accepting release, so that they might gain a better resurrection,

say to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels bound at the great river Euphrates.”