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Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spoke again to them.
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But they cried, saying, Crucify, crucify him
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And he said to them the third time, Why, what evil hath he done? I have found no cause of death in him; I will therefore chastise him, and let [him] go.
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And they were urgent with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified: and the voices of them, and of the chief priests prevailed.
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And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.
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And he released to them him that for sedition and murder had been cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.
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And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear [it] after Jesus.
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And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, who also bewailed and lamented him.
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But Jesus turning to them, said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
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For behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed [are] the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts which never nourished infants.
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Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.