Bible Verses About Passover: Prisoner released at, by the Romans
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Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.
In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.
Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.
After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.
Verses on Prisoner released at, by the Romans
Now at that feast the governor was wont to release unto the people a prisoner, whom they would.
Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired.
16I will therefore chastise him, and release him.
17(For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)
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?