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appealed to them again, because he wanted to release Yeshua.
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But they yelled, "Put him to death on the stake! Put him to death on the stake!
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A third time he asked them, "But what has this man done wrong? I haven't found any reason to put him to death. So I'm going to have him flogged and set free."
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But they went on yelling insistently, demanding that he be executed on the stake; and their shouting prevailed.
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Pilate decided to grant their demand;
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he released the man who had been thrown in prison for insurrection and murder, the one they had asked for; and Yeshua he surrendered to their will.
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As the Roman soldiers led Yeshua away, they grabbed hold of a man from Cyrene named Shim`on, who was on his way in from the country. They put the execution-stake on his back and made him carry it behind Yeshua.
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Large numbers of people followed, including women crying and wailing over him.
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Yeshua turned to them and said, "Daughters of Yerushalayim, don't cry for me; cry for yourselves and your children!
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For the time is coming when people will say, `The childless women are the lucky ones -- those whose wombs have never borne a child, whose breasts have never nursed a baby!
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Then They will begin to say to the mountains, `Fall on us!' and to the hills, `Cover us!'