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Mark - ch 15 v 1 - 20
- Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.
- Pilate asked him, "Are you the King of the Jews?" He answered, "So you say."
- The chief priests accused him of many things.
- Pilate again asked him, "Have you no answer? See how many things they testify against you!"
- But Jesus made no further answer, so that Pilate marveled.
- Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whom they asked of him.
- There was one called Barabbas, bound with those who had made insurrection, men who in the insurrection had committed murder.
- The multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do as he always did for them.
- Pilate answered them, saying, "Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"
- For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up.
- But the chief priests stirred up the multitude, that he should release Barabbas to them instead.
- Pilate again asked them, "What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?"
- They cried out again, "Crucify him!"
- Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, "Crucify him!"
- Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.
- The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort.
- They clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him.
- They began to salute him, "Hail, King of the Jews!"
- They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him.
- When they had mocked him, they took the purple off of him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him.
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