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When he asked, "Why? What crime has he committed?" they shouted all the louder, "Put him to death on the stake!"
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When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but rather that a riot was starting, he took water, washed his hands in front of the crowd, and said, "My hands are clean of this man's blood; it's your responsibility."
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All the people answered, "His blood is on us and on our children!"
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Then he released to them Bar-Abba; but Yeshua, after having him whipped, he handed over to be executed on a stake.
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The governor's soldiers took Yeshua into the headquarters building, and the whole battalion gathered around him.
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They stripped off his clothes and put on him a scarlet robe,
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wove thorn-branches into a crown and put it on his head, and put a stick in his right hand. Then they kneeled down in front of him and made fun of him: "Hail to the King of the Jews!"
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They spit on him and used the stick to beat him about the head.
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When they had finished ridiculing him, they took off the robe, put his own clothes back on him and led him away to be nailed to the execution-stake.
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As they were leaving, they met a man from Cyrene named Shim`on; and they forced him to carry Yeshua's execution-stake.
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When they arrived at a place called Gulgolta (which means "place of a skull"),