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Pilate said to them, "What then will I do to Jesus, who is called Christ?" They all said to him, "Let him be crucified!"
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But the governor said, "Why? What evil has he done?" But they cried out exceedingly, saying, "Let him be crucified!"
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So when Pilate saw that nothing was gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it."
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All the people answered, "May his blood be on us, and on our children!"
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Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified.
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Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium, and gathered to him the whole cohort.
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They stripped him, and put a scarlet robe on him.
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They braided a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down 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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When they had mocked him, they took the robe off from him, and put his clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him.
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As they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, and they compelled him to go with them, that he might carry his cross.