Luke 23:17

For of necessity he must release one ,.... And therefore proposed to release Jesus

unto them at the feast ; of passover, which now was; not that there was any law that obliged to it, but it having been customary with the Roman governor to do so, the people expected it; custom had made it necessary: and so the Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions render it, "it was a custom to release", &c.; not at each feast, or every feast, as the last of these versions read, only at the passover, as is expressed, John 18:39 .