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Source language

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
necesse autem habebat dimittere eis per diem festum unum

King James Variants
American King James Version   
(For of necessity he must release one to them at the feast.)
King James 2000 (out of print)   
(For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
(For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)
Authorized (King James) Version   
(For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)
New King James Version   
(for it was necessary for him to release one to them at the feast).
21st Century King James Version   
(For of necessity he must release one unto them at the Feast.)

Other translations
American Standard Version   
Now he must needs release unto them at the feast one prisoner.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English   
For it was a custom to release them one prisoner at the feast.
Darby Bible Translation   
( Now he was obliged to release one for them at the feast.)
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
Now of necessity he was to release unto them one upon the feast day.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
God's Word   
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
For according to the festival he had to release someone to them.
International Standard Version   
Now he was obligated to release someone for them at the festival.
NET Bible   
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New American Standard Bible   
Now he was obliged to release to them at the feast one prisoner.
New International Version   
New Living Translation   
Webster's Bible Translation   
(For of necessity he must release one to them at the feast.)
Weymouth New Testament   
The World English Bible   
Now he had to release one prisoner to them at the feast.
EasyEnglish Bible   
[Pilate usually let one person go free out of the prison at Passover time.]
Young‘s Literal Translation   
for it was necessary for him to release to them one at every feast,
New Life Version   
*Every year at the time of the special supper, Pilate would let one person who was in prison go free.
Revised Geneva Translation   
(For it was necessary that he release one to them at the Feast.)
The Voice Bible   
[ It was the custom for Pilate to set one prisoner free during the holiday festivities.]
Living Bible   
But now a mighty roar rose from the crowd as with one voice they shouted. “Kill him, and release Barabbas to us!”
New Catholic Bible   
[ Now Pilate was obliged to release one man to them at the time of the festival.]
Legacy Standard Bible   
[Now he was obliged to release to them at the feast one prisoner.]
Jubilee Bible 2000   
(For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)
Amplified Bible © 1954   
For it was necessary for him to release to them one prisoner at the Feast.
New Century Version   
[ Every year at the Passover Feast, Pilate had to release one prisoner to the people.]
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
Pilate needed to release one prisoner to them at the Festival.
New Matthew Bible   
(For custom constrained Pilate to release one prisoner to them at that feast.)
Good News Translation®   
Wycliffe Bible   
But he must needs deliver to them one by the feast day. [Forsooth he had need to dismiss, or deliver, to them one by the feast day.]
Contemporary English Version   
I will just have him beaten with a whip and set free.”
J.B. Phillips New Testament   
But they all yelled as one man, “Take this man away! We want Barabbas set free!” (Barabbas was a man who had been put in prison for causing a riot in the city and for murder.) But Pilate wanted to set Jesus free and he called out to them again, but they shouted back at him, “Crucify, crucify him!”
Amplified Bible © 2015   
[Now he was obligated to release to them one prisoner at the Feast.]
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
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New American Standard Bible   
[Now he was obligated to release to them at the feast one prisoner.]
The Expanded Bible   
| Every year at the Passover Feast, Pilate had to release one prisoner to the people.|
Tree of Life Version   
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New International Reader's Version   
So I will just have him whipped and let him go.”
BRG Bible   
(For of necessity he must release one unto them at the feast.)
Complete Jewish Bible   
Worldwide English (New Testament)   
At the feast Pilate always let one man go free.
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
[Now he was obliged to release to them one at the Chag (Festival).]
Modern English Version   
For he was obligated to release one man to them at the feast.
Easy-to-Read Version   
International Children’s Bible   
[Every year at the Passover Feast, Pilate had to release one prisoner to the people.]
New International Version - UK   
Disciples Literal New Testament