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Pilate again said to them, "Then what should I do with the man you call the King of the Jews?"
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They shouted back, "Put him to death on the stake!"
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He asked, "Why? What crime has he committed?" But they only shouted louder, "Put him to death on the stake!"
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So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the mob, set Bar-Abba free for them; but he had Yeshua whipped and then handed him over to be executed on the stake.
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The soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the headquarters build ing) and called together the whole battalion.
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They dressed him in purple and wove thorn branches into a crown, which they put on him.
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Then they began to salute him, "Hail to the King of the Jews!"
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They hit him on the head with a stick, spat on him and kneeled in mock worship of him.
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When they had finished ridiculing him, they took off the purple robe, put his own clothes back on him and led him away to be nailed to the execution-stake.
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A certain man from Cyrene, Shim`on, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country; and they forced him to carry the stake.
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They brought Yeshua to a place called Gulgolta (which means "place of a skull"),