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Then Pilate therefore took Jesus and scourged [him].
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And the soldiers having plaited a crown of thorns put it on his head, and put a purple robe on him,
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and came to him and said, Hail, king of the Jews! and gave him blows on the face.
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And Pilate went out again and says to them, Lo, I bring him out to you, that ye may know that I find in him no fault whatever.
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(Jesus therefore went forth without, wearing the crown of thorn, and the purple robe.) And he says to them, Behold the man!
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When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him they cried out saying, Crucify, crucify [him]. Pilate says to them, Take him ye and crucify [him], for I find no fault in him.
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The Jews answered him, We have a law, and according to [our] law he ought to die, because he made himself Son of God.
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When Pilate therefore heard this word, he was the rather afraid,