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And when they were gadered together Pilate sayde vnto the: whether wyll ye that I geve losse vnto you Barrabas or Iesus which is called Christ?
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For he knewe well that for envie they had delivred him.
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When he was set doune to geve iudgemet his wyfe sent to him sayinge: have thou nothinge to do with that iuste man. For I have suffered many thinges this daye in a dreame about him.
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But the chefe preestes and the elders had parswaded the people that they shulde axe Barrabas and shulde destroye Iesus.
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Then the debite answered and sayde vnto them: whether of the twayne wyll ye that I let loosse vnto you? And they sayde Barrabas.
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Pilate sayde vnto them: what shall I do then with Iesus which is called Christ? They all sayde to him: let him be crucified.
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Then sayde the debite: what evyll hath he done? And they cryed the more sayinge: let him be crucified.
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When Pilate sawe that he prevayled nothinge but that moare busines was made he toke water and wasshed his hondes before ye people sayinge: I am innocent of the bloud of this iuste person and that ye shall se.
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Then answered all the people and sayde: his bloud be on vs and on oure chyldren.
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Then let he Barrabas loose vnto them and scourged Iesus and delivered him to be crucified.
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Then the soudeours of the debite toke Iesus vnto the comen hall and gaddered vnto him all the company.