Mar 15:6-15, Luk 23:13-25, Joh 18:39-19:16 | ISV | STEP | Jesus Is Sentenced to Death At every festival Pilate would release any one prisoner whom the people requested.

Mark 15:6-15

6 Jesus Is Sentenced to Death Matthew 27:15-26; Luke 23:13-25; John 18:39-19:16At every festival ^{▼▼I.e. Passover} Pilate ^{▼▼Lit. he} would release any one prisoner whom the people ^{▼▼Lit. they} requested.Matt 27:15; Luke 23:17; John 18:39 7 Now there was a man in prison named Barabbas. He was with the insurgents who had committed murder during the rebellion. 8 So the crowd came and began to request that he ^{▼▼The Gk. lacks Pilate} do for them what he always did. 9 Pilate answered them, “Do you want me to release the king of the Jews for you?” 10 For he knew that the high priests had handed him ^{▼▼Lit. him} over because of jealousy.

11 But the high priests stirred up the crowd to get him to release Barabbas for them instead.Matt 27:20; Acts 3:14 12 So Pilate said to them again, “Then what should I do with the man you call ^{▼▼Other mss. lack the man you call} the king of the Jews?”

13 They shouted back, “Crucify him!”

14 Pilate asked them, “Why? What has he done wrong?”

But they shouted even louder, “Crucify him!”

15 So Pilate, wanting to satisfy the crowd, released Barabbas for them, but he had Jesus whipped and handed over to be crucified.Matt 27:26; John 19:1, 16

Luke 23:13-25

13 Jesus Is Sentenced to Death Matthew 27:15-26; Mark 15:6-15; John 18:39-19:16Then Pilate called the high priests, the other ^{▼▼The Gk. lacks other} leaders, and the people togetherMatt 27:23; Mark 15:14; John 18:38; 19:4 14 and said to them, “You brought this man to me as one who turns the people against the government. And here in your presence I have examined him and have found him “Not Guilty” of the charges you make against him.Luke 23:1-2, 4 15 Nor does Herod, for he sent him back to us. Indeed, he has done nothing to deserve death. 16 So I will punish him and let him go.”Matt 27:26; John 19:1 17 Now he was obligated to release someone for them at the festival. ^{▼▼Other mss. lack verse 17}Matt 27:15; Mark 15:6; John 18:39

18 But they all shouted out together, “Away with this man! Release Barabbas for us!”Acts 3:14 19 (This was a man who had been put in prison for a revolt that had taken place in the city and for murder.) 20 But Pilate wanted to let Jesus go, so he appealed to them again, 21 but they continued to shout, “Crucify him! Crucify him!”

22 Then he spoke to them a third time: “What has he done wrong? I have found nothing in him worthy of death. So I will punish him and let him go.” 23 But they kept pressing him with loud shouts, demanding that Jesus ^{▼▼Lit. he} be crucified, and their shouts began to prevail.

24 Then Pilate pronounced his sentence that their demand should be carried out.Matt 27:26; Mark 15:15; John 19:16 25 So he released the man who had been put in prison for revolt and murder—the man they continued to demand—but he let them have their way with Jesus. ^{▼▼Lit. he turned Jesus over to their will}

John 18:39-40

39 But you have a custom that I release one person for you at Passover. Do you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?”Matt 27:15; Mark 15:6; Luke 23:17

40 At this, they shouted out again, “Not this fellow, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a revolutionary. ^{▼▼Or bandit}Luke 23:19; Acts 3:14

John 19:1-16

1 Jesus Is Sentenced to Death Matthew 27:15-31; Mark 15:6-20; Luke 23:13-25

Then Pilate had Jesus taken away and whipped.Matt 20:19; 27:26; Mark 15:15; Luke 18:33 2 The soldiers twisted some thorns into a victor's crown, put it on his head, and threw a purple robe on him. 3 They kept coming up to him and saying, “Long live the king of the Jews!” Then they began to slap him on the face.

4 Pilate went outside again and told the Jews, ^{▼▼Lit. them} “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”John 18:6, 38 5 Then Jesus came outside, wearing the victor's crown of thorns and the purple robe.

Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!”

6 When the high priests and the officials saw him, they shouted, “Crucify him! Crucify him!”

Pilate told them, “You take him and crucify him. I find no basis for a charge against him.”Acts 3:13

7 The Jews answered Pilate, ^{▼▼Lit. him} “We have a law, and according to that law he must die because he made himself out to be the Son of God.”Lev 24:16; Matt 26:65; John 5:18; 10:33

8 When Pilate heard this, he became even more afraid. 9 Returning to his headquarters, ^{▼▼Lit. to the praetorium} he said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no reply.Isa 53:7; Matt 27:12, 14 10 So Pilate said to him, “Aren't you going to speak to me? You realize, don't you, that I have the authority to release you and the authority to crucify you?”

11 Jesus answered him, “You have no authority over me at all, except what was given to you from above. That's why the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”Luke 22:53; John 7:30

12 From then on, Pilate tried to release him, but the Jews kept shouting, “If you release this fellow, you're not a friend of Caesar! Anyone who claims to be a king is defying Caesar!”Luke 23:2; Acts 17:7

13 When Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus outside and sat down on the judgment seat in a place called The Pavement, which in Hebrew is called Gabbatha. 14 Now it was the Preparation Day for the Passover, about twelve noon. ^{▼▼Lit. the sixth hour} He said to the Jews, “Here is your king!”Matt 27:62

15 Then they shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!”

Pilate said to them, “Should I crucify your king?”

The high priests responded, “We have no king but Caesar!”Gen 49:10 16 Then Pilate ^{▼▼Lit. he} handed him over to be crucified, and they took Jesus away.Matt 27:26, 31; Mark 15:15; Luke 23:24