Jesus Delivered to Be Crucified

¹Then Pilate took Jesus and qflogged him. ²rAnd the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe. ³They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands. ⁴Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that sI find no guilt in him.” ⁵So Jesus came out, wearing tthe crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, u“Behold the man!” ⁶When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, v“Take him yourselves and crucify him, for wI find no guilt in him.” ⁷The Jews1 answered him, “We have a law, and xaccording to that law he ought to die because yhe has made himself the Son of God.” ⁸When Pilate heard this statement, zhe was even more afraid. ⁹aHe entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, b“Where are you from?” But cJesus gave him no answer. ¹⁰So Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?” ¹¹Jesus answered him, d“You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore ehe who delivered me over to you fhas the greater sin.”

¹²From then on gPilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. hEveryone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.” ¹³So when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on ithe judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Aramaic2 Gabbatha. ¹⁴Now it was jthe day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour.3 He said to the Jews, k“Behold your King!” ¹⁵They cried out, l“Away with him, away with him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.” ¹⁶mSo he ndelivered him over to them to be crucified.

The Crucifixion

So they took Jesus,

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