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Pilate said to them, "Then what should I do with Jesus who is called the Messiah?" All of them said, "Let him be crucified!"
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Then he asked, "Why, what evil has he done?" But they shouted all the more, "Let him be crucified!"
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So when Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took some water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, "I am innocent of this man's blood; see to it yourselves."
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Then the people as a whole answered, "His blood be on us and on our children!"
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So he released Barabbas for them; and after flogging Jesus, he handed him over to be crucified.
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Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor's headquarters, and they gathered the whole cohort around him.
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They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him,
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and after twisting some thorns into a crown, they put it on his head. They put a reed in his right hand and knelt before him and mocked him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!"
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They spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head.
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After mocking him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.
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As they went out, they came upon a man from Cyrene named Simon; they compelled this man to carry his cross.