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But the chefe preestes and the elders had parswaded the people that they shulde axe Barrabas and shulde destroye Iesus.
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Then the debite answered and sayde vnto them: whether of the twayne wyll ye that I let loosse vnto you? And they sayde Barrabas.
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Pilate sayde vnto them: what shall I do then with Iesus which is called Christ? They all sayde to him: let him be crucified.
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Then sayde the debite: what evyll hath he done? And they cryed the more sayinge: let him be crucified.
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When Pilate sawe that he prevayled nothinge but that moare busines was made he toke water and wasshed his hondes before ye people sayinge: I am innocent of the bloud of this iuste person and that ye shall se.
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Then answered all the people and sayde: his bloud be on vs and on oure chyldren.
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Then let he Barrabas loose vnto them and scourged Iesus and delivered him to be crucified.
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Then the soudeours of the debite toke Iesus vnto the comen hall and gaddered vnto him all the company.
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And they stripped him and put on him a purpyll roobe
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and platted a croune of thornes and put vpon his heed and a rede in his ryght honde: and bowed their knees before him and mocked him saying: hayle kinge of the Iewes:
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and spitted vpon him and toke the rede and smoote him on the heed.