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Pilate spoke to them again, "Then what do you wish me to do with the man you call the King of the Jews?"
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They shouted back, "Crucify him!"
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Pilate asked them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they shouted all the more, "Crucify him!"
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So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released Barabbas for them; and after flogging Jesus, he handed him over to be crucified.
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Then the soldiers led him into the courtyard of the palace (that is, the governor's headquarters ); and they called together the whole cohort.
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And they clothed him in a purple cloak; and after twisting some thorns into a crown, they put it on him.
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And they began saluting him, "Hail, King of the Jews!"
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They struck his head with a reed, spat upon him, and knelt down in homage to him.
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After mocking him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.
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They compelled a passer-by, who was coming in from the country, to carry his cross; it was Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus.
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Then they brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha (which means the place of a skull).
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And they offered him wine mixed with myrrh; but he did not take it.
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And they crucified him, and divided his clothes among them, casting lots to decide what each should take.
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It was nine o'clock in the morning when they crucified him.
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The inscription of the charge against him read, "The King of the Jews."
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And with him they crucified two bandits, one on his right and one on his left.
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Those who passed by derided him, shaking their heads and saying, "Aha! You who would destroy the temple and build it in three days,
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save yourself, and come down from the cross!"
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In the same way the chief priests, along with the scribes, were also mocking him among themselves and saying, "He saved others; he cannot save himself.
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Let the Messiah, the King of Israel, come down from the cross now, so that we may see and believe." Those who were crucified with him also taunted him.