John 18:39-40
39 a“But you have a custom that I release someone ▼▼ Or to you
for you at the Passover; do you wish then that I release ▼▼ Or to you
for you the King of the Jews?” 40So they cried out again, saying, d“Not this Man, but Barabbas.” Now Barabbas was a robber. John 19:1-16
The Crown of Thorns
1Pilate then took Jesus and ▼▼ Or had Him scourged
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fscourged Him. 2 gAnd the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and put a purple robe on Him; 3and they began to come up to Him and say, h“Hail, King of the Jews!” and to igive Him slaps in the face. 4Pilate jcame out again and said to them, “Behold, I am bringing Him out to you so that you may know that kI find no guilt in Him.” 5Jesus then came out, lwearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold, the Man!” 6So when the chief priests and the mofficers saw Him, they cried out saying, “Crucify, crucify!” Pilate said to them, “Take Him yourselves and crucify Him, for nI find no guilt in Him.” 7The Jews answered him, o“We have a law, and by that law He ought to die because He pmade Himself out to be the Son of God.” 8Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid; 9and he qentered into the ▼▼ I.e. governor’s official residence
Praetorium again and said to Jesus, “Where are You from?” But sJesus gave him no answer. 10So Pilate said to Him, “You do not speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority to release You, and I have authority to crucify You?” 11Jesus answered, t“You would have no authority ▼▼ Lit against
over Me, unless it had been given you from above; for this reason vhe who delivered Me to you has the greater sin.” 12As a result of this Pilate ▼▼ Lit was seeking to
made efforts to release Him, but the Jews cried out saying, x“If you release this Man, you are no friend of Caesar; everyone who makes himself out to be a king ▼▼ Or speaks against
opposes Caesar.” 13Therefore when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out, and zsat down on the judgment seat at a place called ▼▼ Gr The Lithostrotos
The Pavement, but abin ▼▼ I.e. Jewish Aramaic
Hebrew, Gabbatha. 14Now it was adthe day of preparation for the Passover; it was about the ▼▼ Perhaps 6 a.m.
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afsixth hour. And he said to the Jews, “Behold, agyour King!” 15So they cried out, ah“Away with Him, away with Him, crucify Him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.” The Crucifixion
16So he then aihanded Him over to them to be crucified.
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