12
Pilate again asked them, "What then should I do to him whom you call the King of the Jews?"
13
They cried out again, "Crucify him!"
14
Pilate said to them, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, "Crucify him!"
15
Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and delivered Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.
16
The soldiers led him away within the court, which is the Praetorium; and they called together the whole cohort.
17
They clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him.
18
They began to salute him, "Hail, King of the Jews!"
19
They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him.
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When they had mocked him, they took the purple off of him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him.
21
They compelled one passing by, coming from the country, Simon of Cyrene, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go with them, that he might bear his cross.
22
They brought him to the place called Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, "The place of a skull."