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And he a third time said unto them, `Why, what evil did he? no cause of death did I find in him; having chastised him, then, I will release [him].'
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And they were pressing with loud voices asking him to be crucified, and their voices, and those of the chief priests, were prevailing,
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and Pilate gave judgment for their request being done,
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and he released him who because of sedition and murder hath been cast into the prison, whom they were asking, and Jesus he gave up to their will.
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And as they led him away, having taken hold on Simon, a certain Cyrenian, coming from the field, they put on him the cross, to bear [it] behind Jesus.
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And there was following him a great multitude of the people, and of women, who also were beating themselves and lamenting him,
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and Jesus having turned unto them, said, `Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but for yourselves weep ye, and for your children;
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for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck;
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then they shall begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us, and to the hills, Cover us; --
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for, if in the green tree they do these things -- in the dry what may happen?'
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And there were also others -- two evil-doers -- with him, to be put to death;