And Pilate gave sentence Resolved, determined, and gave out:
that it should be as they required; that they should have their request, what they asked for; namely, that Jesus should be crucified, and Barabbas released.
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And he said the third time to them, What evil then has this [man] done? I have found no cause of death in him: I will chastise him therefore and release him.
23
But they were urgent with loud voices, begging that he might be crucified. And their voices [and those of the chief priests] prevailed.
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And Pilate adjudged that what they begged should take place.
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And he released him who, for tumult and murder, had been cast into prison, whom they begged for, and Jesus he delivered up to their will.
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And as they led him away, they laid hold on a certain Simon, a Cyrenian, coming from the field, and put the cross upon him to bear it behind Jesus.