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addressed them again
"spoke to them again" or "spoke again to the people in the crowd and to the religious rulers"
desiring to release Jesus
"because he wanted to set Jesus free"
He said to them a third time
"Pilate said to the crowd again, for the third time" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-ordinal)
what evil has this man done?
Pilate uses this question to cause the crowd to understand that Jesus is innocent. AT: "this man has not done anything wrong!" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion)
I have found nothing deserving the death penalty in him
"He has done nothing for which he deserves to die"
after punishing him, I will release him
As in Luke 23:16, Pilate should have released Jesus without punishment because he was innocent. However, he offered to punish Jesus to appease the crowd.
I will release him
"I will set him free"