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and went into the praetorium again and says to Jesus, Whence art thou? But Jesus gave him no answer.
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Pilate therefore says to him, Speakest thou not to *me*? Dost thou not know that I have authority to release thee and have authority to crucify thee?
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Jesus answered, Thou hadst no authority whatever against me if it were not given to thee from above. On this account he that has delivered me up to thee has [the] greater sin.
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From this time Pilate sought to release him; but the Jews cried out saying, If thou releasest this [man], thou art not a friend to Caesar. Every one making himself a king speaks against Caesar.
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Pilate therefore, having heard these words, led Jesus out and sat down upon [the] judgment-seat, at a place called Pavement, but in Hebrew Gabbatha;
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(now it was [the] preparation of the passover; it was about the sixth hour;) and he says to the Jews, Behold your king!
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But they cried out, Take [him] away, take [him] away, crucify him. Pilate says to them, Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.
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Then therefore he delivered him up to them, that he might be crucified; and they took Jesus and led him away.
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And he went out, bearing his cross, to the place called [place] of a skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha;
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where they crucified him, and with him two others, [one] on this side, and [one] on that, and Jesus in the middle.
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And Pilate wrote a title also and put it on the cross. But there was written: Jesus the Nazaraean, the King of the Jews.