Jesus Delivered to Be Crucified
1 Then Pilate took Jesus and
1flogged him.
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2And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe.
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They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews! ” and struck him with their hands.
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Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that
3I find no guilt in him. ”
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So Jesus came out, wearing
4the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them,
5“Behold the man! ”
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When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him! ” Pilate said to them,
6“Take him yourselves and crucify him, for
7I find no guilt in him. ”
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The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and
8according to that law he ought to die because
9he has made himself the Son of God. ”
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When Pilate heard this statement,
10he was even more afraid.
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11He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus,
12“Where are you from? ” But
13Jesus gave him no answer.
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So Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you? ”
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Jesus answered him,
14“You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore
15he who delivered me over to you
16has the greater sin. ”
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From then on
17Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend.
18Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar. ”
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So when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on
19the judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Aramaic Gabbatha.
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Now it was
20the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews,
21“Behold your King! ”
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They cried out,
22“Away with him, away with him, crucify him! ” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King? ” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar. ”
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23So he
24delivered him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus,
The Crucifixion
17 and
25he went out,
26bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.
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27There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.