John Gill Commentary Mark 15:8

"And the multitude went up and began to ask him [to do] as he was wont to do unto them." — Mark 15:8 (ASV)

And the multitude crying aloud
The Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions read, and when the "multitude", or "people went up", to the place called the pavement, where the judgment seat was; and so it is read in Beza's most ancient copy; but the former reading is to be preferred:

began to desire [him to do] as he had ever done to them :
that is, release a prisoner to them, as he had done at every passover, since he had been a governor over them.