The chief priests and the elders of the law assembled the people that they might ask for Bar-Abba [son of a father] and that Yeshua [God is Salvation] might die.Mrk 15:11; Luk 23:18; Jhn 18:40; Act 3:14
But the chief priests and elders worked through the crowd, persuading and convincing them to ask for Barabbas to be released and for Jesus to be destroyed.
But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesus executed.
OJBHowever, the Rashei Hakohanim and the Zekenim persuaded the multitudes to ask for Bar-Abba, but Yehoshua they should destroy.
TCENTBut the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas to be released and for Jesus to be executed.
T4TBut the chief priests and elders persuaded the crowd to ask Pilate to release Barabbas, and to order that Jesus be executed {that his soldiers execute Jesus}.