πάλιν : they had intimated their will already by a popular shout = Barabbas, not Jesus; now they intimate their feeling about Jesus by a second shout with the unmistakable ring of reprobation in it: CRUCIFY HIM! That is what Pilate's ὅν λέγετε has brought out. It has been taken as an insult. The sense is the same if, with B, we omit ὅν. Pilate's question then = what then shall I do, tell me, to the King of the Jews? The sting lies in the title.

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