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20 And Pilate again spoke to them, desiring to release Jesus.
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Wanting to release Jesus, Pilate appealed to them again.
21 But they cried again, saying: Crucify him, Crucify him
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But they kept shouting, “Crucify him! Crucify him!”
22 And he said to them the third time: Why, what evil hath this man done? I find no cause of death in him. I will chastise him therefore and let him go.
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For the third time he spoke to them: “Why? What crime has this man committed? I have found in him no grounds for the death penalty. Therefore I will have him punished and then release him.”
23 But they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And their voices prevailed.
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But with loud shouts they insistently demanded that he be crucified, and their shouts prevailed.
24 And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.
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So Pilate decided to grant their demand.
25 And he released unto them him who for murder and sedition had been cast into prison, whom they had desired. But Jesus he delivered up to their will.
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He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, the one they asked for, and surrendered Jesus to their will.
26 And as they led him away, they laid hold of one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country; and they laid the cross on him to carry after Jesus.
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As the soldiers led him away, they seized Simon from Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country, and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus.
27 And there followed him a great multitude of people and of women, who bewailed and lamented him.
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A large number of people followed him, including women who mourned and wailed for him.
28 But Jesus turning to them, said: Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not over me; but weep for yourselves and for your children.
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Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children.
29 For behold, the days shall come, wherein they will say: Blessed are the barren and the wombs that have not borne and the paps that have not given suck.
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For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’
30 Then shall they begin to say to the mountains: Fall upon us. And to the hills: Cover us.
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Then “ ‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!” ’
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