9
And Pilate answered to them, and said, Will ye that I let go to you the king of Jews? [+Soothly Pilate answered to them, and said, Will ye I leave to you the king of Jews/Will ye that I deliver to you the king of Jews?]
10
For he knew, that the high priests had taken him by envy. [Forsooth he knew that the highest priests had betaken him by envy.]
11
But the bishops stirred the people, that he should rather let go to them Barabbas. [+Forsooth the bishops stirred the company of people, that more he should leave to them Barabbas/Forsooth the bishops excited the company, that more he should deliver to them Barabbas.]
12
And again Pilate answered, and said to them, What then will ye that I shall do to the king of Jews?
13
And they again cried, Crucify him [Crucify him, that is, Put him on the cross].
14
But Pilate said to them, [Soothly] What evil hath he done? And they cried the more, Crucify him.
15
And Pilate, willing to make satisfaction to the people, let go to them Barabbas, and he betook to them Jesus, beaten with scourges [+And soothly Pilate, willing to do enough to the people, or to fulfill their will, left to them Barabbas/delivered to them Barabbas, and he betook Jesus, beaten with scourges], to be crucified.
16
And knights led him withinforth, into the porch of the moot hall. And they called together all the company of knights,
17
and they clothed him with purple. And they wreathed a crown of thorns, and put on him [And they folding a crown of thorns, put on him].
18
And they began to greet him, and said [And began to greet him, saying], Hail, king of Jews.
19
And they smote his head with a reed, and bespat him; and they kneeled, and worshipped him. [+And they smote his head with a reed, and spat on him; and putting, or bowing, their knees, worshipped him.]