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The crowd answered, "We'll take the blame, we and our children after us."
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Then he pardoned Barabbas. But he had Jesus whipped, and then handed over for crucifixion.
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The soldiers assigned to the governor took Jesus into the governor's palace and got the entire brigade together for some fun.
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They stripped him and dressed him in a red toga.
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They plaited a crown from branches of a thorn bush and set it on his head. They put a stick in his right hand for a scepter. Then they knelt before him in mocking reverence: "Bravo, King of the Jews!" they said. "Bravo!"
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Then they spit on him and hit him on the head with the stick.
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When they had had their fun, they took off the toga and put his own clothes back on him. Then they proceeded out to the crucifixion.
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Along the way they came on a man from Cyrene named Simon and made him carry Jesus' cross.
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Arriving at Golgotha, the place they call "Skull Hill,"
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they offered him a mild painkiller (a mixture of wine and myrrh), but when he tasted it he wouldn't drink it.
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After they had finished nailing him to the cross and were waiting for him to die, they whiled away the time by throwing dice for his clothes.