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And the multitude having cried out, began to ask for themselves as he was always doing to them,
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and Pilate answered them, saying, `Will ye [that] I shall release to you the king of the Jews?'
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for he knew that because of envy the chief priests had delivered him up;
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and the chief priests did move the multitude, that he might rather release Barabbas to them.
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And Pilate answering, again said to them, `What, then, will ye [that] I shall do to him whom ye call king of the Jews?'
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and they again cried out, `Crucify him.'
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And Pilate said to them, `Why -- what evil did he?' and they cried out the more vehemently, `Crucify him;'
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and Pilate, wishing to content the multitude, released to them Barabbas, and delivered up Jesus -- having scourged [him] -- that he might be crucified.
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And the soldiers led him away into the hall, which is Praetorium, and call together the whole band,
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and clothe him with purple, and having plaited a crown of thorns, they put [it] on him,
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and began to salute him, `Hail, King of the Jews.'